咸 → 泰
Hexagram 31: Influence → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 咸其拇。
Six at the beginning means: The influence shows itself in the big toe.
Line 2
六二 咸其腓。凶。居吉。
Six in the second place means: The influence shows itself in the calves of the legs. Misfortune. Tarrying brings good fortune.
Line 4
九四 貞吉悔亡。憧憧往來。朋從爾思。
Nine in the fourth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears. If a man is agitated in mind, And his thoughts go hither and thither, Only those friends On whom he fixes his conscious thoughts Will follow.
Line 5
九五 咸其脢。无悔。
Nine in the fifth place means: The influence shows itself in the back of the neck. No remorse.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
狗吠非主，狼虎夜擾，驚我東西，不為家咎。
The dog barks, but not at its master; wolf and tiger prowl by night. They startle me east and west; yet no blame falls on the house.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A lake upon a mountain stirs feeling, but here the disturbance is merely noise. Dogs bark at strangers who are not their masters, wolves and tigers prowl in the night, startling the household east and west — yet none of this becomes a real calamity. The key phrase is 'not the household's fault' (不為家咎): the threats are external, transient, and ultimately harmless. The barking dogs and roaming predators represent fears that feel overwhelming in the moment but carry no lasting consequence. From Influence to Peace, the mountain's openness transforms into the great interchange of heaven and earth: heaven descends, earth rises, and all things communicate freely. What seemed menacing by night dissolves in the daylight of cosmic harmony. Alarm gives way to stability.
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