隨 → 訟
Hexagram 17: Following → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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
逐虎驅狼，避者不祥。凶惡北行，與喜相逢。
Driving tigers and wolves away -- those who linger court disaster. The fierce and evil go northward; there they meet with joy.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rests within the lake as predators are driven from the land. Tigers and wolves are chased away — whoever fails to flee courts disaster. Yet once the menace has been expelled northward, joy arrives in its wake. The verse reads as a purge: following the decisive moment, malevolence is cast out and fortune takes its place. The directional detail matters: north is associated with darkness and cold, the natural exile for forces of harm. From Following to Conflict, the dynamic shifts from willing alignment to the confrontation of opposed forces — yet here the conflict serves a cleansing purpose, driving what is vicious toward its proper quarter so that happiness can fill the space left behind.
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