剝 → 睽
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 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 2
六二 剝牀以辨。蔑貞凶。
Six in the second place means: The bed is split at the edge. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Line 3
六三 剝之无咎。
Six in the third place means: He splits with them. No blame.
Line 4
六四 剝牀以膚。凶。
Six in the fourth place means: The bed is split up to the skin. Misfortune.
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
螟䖝為賊，害我禾穀。簞瓶空虛，飢無所食。
Caterpillars and grubs are the bane, ravaging my grain and crops. Bamboo baskets and jars stand empty; there is nothing to eat in hunger.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain upon earth decays into fire above lake — Opposition, where different elements face each other in tension. Caterpillars and grubs become pests, destroying grain and millet. The jars and bottles stand empty; there is nothing to eat in the famine. The pest invasion is a quiet catastrophe — not dramatic fire or flood but the slow, invisible consumption of the harvest by insects. The containers that should hold food are void, a domestic echo of the agricultural ruin outside. From Splitting Apart to Opposition, the mountain's erosion meets the divergence of fire and water. Fire rises while the lake sinks; above and below pull apart. The pests embody this Opposition: they are creatures of the same field as the grain, yet they destroy it. What should nourish and what devours share the same ground but move in opposite directions.
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