隨 → 巽
Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 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 2
六二 係小子。失丈夫。
Six in the second place means: If one clings to the little boy, One loses the strong man.
Line 3
六三 係丈夫。失小子。隨有求得。利居貞。
Six in the third place means: If one clings to the strong man, One loses the little boy. Through following one finds what one seeks. It furthers one to remain persevering.
Line 4
九四 隨有獲。貞凶。有孚在道以明。何咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Following creates success. Perseverance brings misfortune. To go one's way with sincerity brings clarity. How could there be blame in this?
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
水壞我里，東流為海；龜鳧讙囂，不睹王母。
Floodwaters breach my village, flowing east to the sea; turtles and ducks clamor noisily -- the Queen Mother is not to be seen.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rests within the lake, but the waters have broken through the village. The flood courses eastward to the sea, and amid the clamor of turtles and waterfowl, the Queen Mother of the West is nowhere to be seen. When the waters overwhelm the settlement, even the divine guardian of immortality becomes inaccessible. The turtles and ducks — creatures at home in flood — celebrate where humans drown. The Queen Mother's absence means the hope of transcendence is cut off by the very waters that should nourish life. From Following to the Gentle, doubled wind penetrates everywhere. Yet Xun's pervasive influence here manifests as a flood that infiltrates every corner, dissolving the boundary between the mortal and the sacred.
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