同人 → 訟
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Line 1
初九 同人于門。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: Fellowship with men at the gate. No blame.
Line 2
六二 同人于宗。吝。
Six in the second place means: Fellowship with men in the clan. Humiliation.
Line 3
九三 伏戎于莽。升其高陵。三歲不興。
Nine in the third place means: He hides weapons in the thicket; He climbs the high hill in front of it. For three years he does not rise up.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
履危不安，心欲東西；步走逐鹿，空無所得。
Treading danger, finding no peace; the heart yearns east and west. Running in pursuit of deer; the chase yields nothing at all.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship, but the ground underfoot is treacherous. Treading on danger, the heart finds no peace, pulled in all directions at once. A man chases a deer at full sprint — east then west, exhausting himself — and catches nothing. The verse captures futile pursuit under duress: the quarry is imaginary, the effort real, and the anxiety corrosive. From Fellowship to Conflict, the transformation reveals how communal purpose curdles into contention. Heaven and water move in opposite directions in Conflict; the gentleman plans carefully at the beginning of every enterprise. Here, no such forethought exists — only desperate running and empty hands.
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