復 → 家人
Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
Line 3
六三 頻復。厲。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Repeated return. Danger. No blame.
Line 5
六五 敦復。无悔。
Six in the fifth place means: Noblehearted return. No remorse.
Line 6
上六 迷復。凶。有災眚。用行師。終有大敗。以其國君凶。至于十年不克征。
Six at the top means: Missing the return. Misfortune. Misfortune from within and without. If armies are set marching in this way, One will in the end suffer a great defeat, Disastrous for the ruler of the country. For ten years It will not be possible to attack again.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
太乙置酒，樂正起舞。萬福攸同，可以安處，綏我齯齒。
The Great One sets out wine; the master of music rises to dance. Ten thousand blessings converge as one; herein one may dwell in peace. Comfort our aged and toothless.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder returns beneath the earth as the supreme deity Taiyi hosts a banquet and the Master of Music rises to dance. All blessings converge in harmonious accord; one may dwell in perfect ease and comfort the aged to their last teeth. Taiyi — the Supreme One of Han cosmology, associated with the pole star — presides over a celestial feast where joy and blessing are distributed to all. The 'teeth worn to the gums' signify extreme old age, tenderly protected. From Return to The Family, wind issues from fire as words carry substance and actions maintain constancy. The transformation connects cosmic celebration to domestic order: the divine banquet radiates down to shelter even the humblest household, warmth spreading from hearth to home.
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