恆 → 否
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Remorse disappears.
Line 3
九三 不恆其德。或承之羞。貞吝。
Nine in the third place means: He who does not give duration to his character Meets with disgrace. Persistent humiliation.
Line 5
六五 恒其德貞。婦人吉。夫子凶。
Six in the fifth place means: Giving duration to one's character through perseverance. This is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man.
Line 6
上六 振恆凶。
Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
牝馬牝駒，歲字不休，君子衣服，利得有餘。
Mare and filly; year after year, breeding without cease. The noble man’s garments; profit and surplus abound.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's steadfast rhythm, transforms into heaven above earth — Standstill's blocked communication. Mares and fillies breed year after year without cease, and the gentleman's garments overflow with surplus bounty. The image is one of patient, unhurried accumulation: the horses multiply through natural cycles, the master's wardrobe grows rich through steady gains. Though Standstill signals stagnation between high and low, the verse finds abundance precisely in that stillness — the mare does not rush but produces reliably. From Duration to Standstill, the thunder-wind's active persistence becomes the quiet separation of heaven and earth. When outer communication ceases, inner resources compound undisturbed, and what looks like blockage becomes the condition for slow, steady enrichment.
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