蠱 → 履
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 幹父之蠱。有子。考无咎。厲終吉。
Six in the beginning means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. If there is a son, No blame rests upon the departed father. Danger. In the end good fortune.
Line 3
九三 幹父之蠱。小有悔。无大咎。
Nine in the third place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. There will be a little remorse. No great blame.
Line 4
六四 裕父之蠱。往見吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
Line 5
六五 幹父之蠱。用譽。
Six in the fifth place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. One meets with praise.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
童妾獨宿，長女未室；利無所得。
The spinning wheel stops; spider silk wraps the spindle. A fair face looks into a mirror — but the mirror too is covered in dust.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain stagnates, and the transformation ascends to heaven above the lake — the cautious steps of Treading. The original verse reads: 'A young concubine sleeps alone; the eldest daughter remains unmarried. No profit is gained.' Neglect and abandonment pervade: the concubine left without companionship, the daughter past her prime without a match, all enterprise barren. The domestic decay mirrors the hexagram's corruption — relationships untended, opportunities squandered. From Work on the Decayed to Treading, the remedy demands careful conduct. Like treading upon the tiger's tail without being bitten, one must restore order through propriety and attention to what has been neglected, stepping deliberately where carelessness once prevailed.
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