同人 → 既濟
Hexagram 13: Fellowship → Hexagram 63: After Completion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
Line 4
九四 乘其墉。弗克攻。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: He climbs up on his wall; he cannot attack. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 同人于郊。无悔。
Nine at the top means: Fellowship with men in the meadow. No remorse.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
踊泉滑滑，流行不絕；汙為江海，敗毀邑里，家無所處。聞虎不懼，向我笑喜。
A gushing spring flows without cease; the torrent never ends. The marshes become rivers and seas; they destroy villages and towns, leaving no dwelling. Hearing the tiger, one does not fear; it turns to us with smiling joy.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and fire form Fellowship in a verse of bewildering reversals. A spring gushes and flows ceaselessly; its waters swell into rivers and seas, destroying towns and houses until no family has a dwelling. Then, hearing a tiger's roar, the speaker feels no fear — instead, the tiger approaches with what seems like a smile. Flood devastation followed by an improbable moment of fearless communion with a predator. From Fellowship to After Completion, the transformation suggests that all this turbulence resolves. Water sits properly above fire in After Completion — the noble man anticipates trouble and prepares defenses. The laughing tiger may be the strangest emblem of completion: once everything is destroyed, even danger loses its menace.
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