恆 → 同人
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
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 2
九二 悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Remorse disappears.
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
南行懷憂，破其金輿。安坐故廬，乃無災患。
Traveling south, harboring worry; the golden carriage breaks apart. Sitting at ease in the old cottage, there is no calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's persistent rhythm, opens into heaven with fire — Fellowship's shared illumination. Heading south brings only worry and shatters the golden carriage. Better to sit calmly in the old homestead, where no disaster reaches. The golden carriage (金輿) connotes high rank and ceremonial display; its destruction signals an ambitious venture gone catastrophically wrong. The verse counsels retreat over advance: the southern expedition ruins what the safe dwelling preserves. From Duration to Fellowship, the enduring pattern should find kinship and common purpose. Yet the fellowship sought through aggressive outreach destroys itself, while the old house — symbol of what has endured longest — remains the true refuge. Lasting community is found at home, not on the road.
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