恆 → 泰
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 4).
Line 1
初六 浚恆貞凶。无攸利。
Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Line 4
九四 田无禽。
Nine in the fourth place means: No game in the field.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
一身兩頭，近適二家，亂不可治。
One body with two heads, drawn toward two households. Chaos that cannot be governed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's unified rhythm, transforms into earth above heaven — Peace's great interchange. Yet the verse undermines that promise: one body with two heads, pledged simultaneously to two households, produces chaos that cannot be governed. Duration demands single-minded loyalty; trying to maintain constancy toward two masters at once tears the self apart. The two-headed body is a vivid image of divided allegiance, where every commitment contradicts another. From Duration to Peace, the hexagram promises heaven and earth in communion, but the subject's split loyalties prevent the harmony from taking hold. True peace requires undivided commitment; duration maintained in two directions at once is not constancy but paralysis.
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