頤 → 睽
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
Line 2
六二 顛頤。拂經于丘。頤征凶。
Six in the second place means: Turning to the summit for nourishment, Deviating from the path To seek nourishment from the hill. Continuing to do this brings misfortune.
Line 4
六四 顛頤。吉。虎視眈眈。其欲逐逐。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Turning to the summit For provision of nourishment Brings good fortune. Spying about with sharp eyes Like a tiger with insatiable craving. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
缺囊破筐，空無黍稷。不媚如公，棄於糞墻。
A torn sack, a broken basket; empty of millet and grain. Without flattery, upright as a duke; cast aside by the dung wall.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder shifts to fire above the lake — Opposition, where two natures diverge. A torn bag and broken basket hold no millet or grain. One who does not flatter like the duke is discarded against the dung wall. The verse is a bitter complaint about integrity punished: the containers of nourishment are destroyed, leaving nothing, and the honest man who refuses to toady is thrown away like refuse. From Nourishment to Opposition, the transformation splits: fire rises while the lake sinks, each going its own way. The one who should be nourished is instead emptied and rejected, because his honesty opposes the prevailing corruption. What feeds the court starves the truthful.
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