剝 → 家人
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 剝牀以足。蔑貞凶。
Six at the beginning means: The leg of the bed is split. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Line 5
六五 貫魚。以宮人寵。无不利。
Six in the fifth place means: A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies. Everything acts to further.
Line 6
上九 碩果不食。君子得輿。小人剝廬。
Nine at the top means: There is a large fruit still uneaten. The superior man receives a carriage. The house of the inferior man is split apart.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
歲暮花落，陽入陰室。萬物伏匿，藏不可得。
The storehouse lock rusts, the key is lost. Ledger ink fades to frost. Gold and silver buried — the marker is gone. Digging up the entire south garden, the cache is never found.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain upon earth decays into wind emerging from fire — the Family, where inner warmth radiates outward as consistent influence. The original verse reads: 'At year's end the flowers fall, yang enters the yin chamber. All things hide and conceal themselves; what is stored cannot be found.' Everything vanishes into winter's dark interior: the flowers are gone, the light retreats indoors, and stored wealth disappears beyond recovery. The rewritten verse makes this vivid with rusted locks, faded ledgers, and buried gold whose markers are lost. From Splitting Apart to the Family, the mountain's decay should kindle the hearth — wind from fire, words with substance, deeds with constancy. But here the household's foundation has rotted: the storehouse is locked and the key is lost. A family that cannot find its own resources cannot radiate any warmth.
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