復 → 泰
Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
六二 休復。吉。
Six in the second place means: Quiet return. Good fortune.
Line 3
六三 頻復。厲。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Repeated return. Danger. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
任力劣薄，遠托邦國。轉車不彊，為癰所傷。
Strength meager and feeble; entrusted far to a foreign land. The cart cannot turn; wounded by an abscess.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder returns beneath the earth, but the bearer's strength is meager and thin. Forced to seek refuge in a distant state, the exile's wagon cannot even turn properly, and an abscess festers from the hardship of the road. This is the plight of the displaced minister or refugee — strength insufficient for the burden, far from home, body failing under duress. From Return to Peace, heaven and earth exchange their energies in harmonious communion. The bitter irony lies in the gap between the promise of peace and the reality of exhaustion: the returning impulse exists, but the vessel carrying it is too weak to deliver. Even the gentlest destination cannot be reached if the traveler breaks down en route.
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