蠱 → 晉
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
九二 幹母之蠱。不可貞。
Nine in the second place means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother. One must not be too persevering.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
崑崙源口，流行不止；龍門砥柱，民不安處。母歸孩子，黃麑悅喜。
From the source at Kunlun, the flow never ceases; the Dragon Gate pillars stand amid the current. The people cannot dwell in peace. The mother returns to her fawn -- the young deer rejoices.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain releases the great river's flow, and the transformation rises as fire emerging from the earth — the bright Progress of Jin. From Kunlun's headwaters the current runs without ceasing, crashing through Dragon Gate and past the Pillar-Stone, until the people can find no safe footing. Then the mother returns to her child, and the young fawn leaps with delight. Kunlun and Dragon Gate evoke Yu the Great's primordial flood-taming — the irresistible force of water carving through rock. From Work on the Decayed to Progress, the torrent that displaces people also clears the way for reunification. Light breaks above the earth as floodwaters recede: what the deluge scattered, the dawn gathers back together. The fawn's joy signals nature's own recovery.
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