賁 → 蠱
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).
Line 1
初九 賁其趾。舍車而徒。
Nine at the beginning means: He lends grace to his toes, leaves the carriage, and walks.
Line 2
六二 賁其須。
Six in the second place means: Lends grace to the beard on his chin.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
班馬還師，以息勞罷。役夫嘉喜，入戶見妻。
Armor stripped off and hung on the wall; washing away campaign dust, changing into cotton clothes. Wife at the door, child clutching his leg — the hearth is lit again, food smells fill the air.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain is a rewrite — the original verse reads: 'The striped war-horses return with the army, to rest from weariness and toil; the conscript soldiers rejoice, entering their doors to see their wives.' This is a homecoming scene: the army disbands, campaigns end, and exhausted soldiers return to domestic life. The original phrase 'ban ma huan shi' (班馬還師) specifically describes war-horses returning in formation. From Grace to Work on the Decayed, the mountain remains but fire yields to wind beneath. Where Grace adorned the martial exterior, Work on the Decayed addresses what festers in peacetime. The soldier's return marks not an ending but the beginning of repair — restoring what war corroded.
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