蠱 → 睽
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
大倉充盈，庶民蕃盛，年歲熟榮。
The great granary overflows; the common people flourish and multiply. The year harvest is rich and splendid.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain yields unexpected abundance, and the transformation divides into fire above the lake — the creative tension of Opposition. The great granaries overflow; the common people flourish and multiply; the year's harvest ripens gloriously. This is one of the Yilin's briefest and most purely auspicious verses — three phrases of unqualified prosperity. From Work on the Decayed to Opposition, the pairing seems paradoxical: how does decay lead to abundance through division? The answer lies in Opposition's dynamic: fire and lake pull apart yet stimulate each other. Like complementary opposites in agriculture — sun and rain, plowing and rest — productive tension generates the surplus that fills the granaries.
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