隨 → 否
Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Line 1
初九 官有渝。貞吉。出門交有功。
Nine at the beginning means: The standard is changing. Perseverance brings good fortune. To go out of the door in company Produces deeds.
Line 6
上六 拘係之。乃從維之。王用亨于西山。
Six at the top means: He meets with firm allegiance And is still further bound. The king introduces him To the Western Mountain.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鹿求其子，虎廬之里；唐伯季耳，貪不我許。
A deer seeks her fawn, near the tiger lair; the lord of Tang, greedy, does not grant my request.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rests within the lake as a doe searches for her fawn within the tiger's lair. The verse then invokes Tang Bo and Ji Er — figures possibly identifiable with Tang Shuyu, founder of Jin, and his descendants, whose greed denied the speaker's request. A mother deer venturing into a predator's den is desperation embodied; the named lords refuse to grant aid, their avarice overriding duty. From Following to Standstill, the transformation is fitting: Pi's heaven and earth refuse to communicate, and those in power hoard their position. The doe's maternal urgency meets a wall of Standstill's blocked exchange, where the powerful neither give nor yield.
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