恆 → 噬嗑
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 21: Biting Through
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 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 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 6
上六 振恆凶。
Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
攘臂極肘，怒不可止，狼戾復佷，無與為市。
Baring the arm, thrusting the elbow; fury that cannot be stopped. Savage as a wolf, cruel and stubborn; none will trade with him.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's measured persistence, erupts into fire above thunder — Biting Through's decisive punishment. Sleeves are rolled up, elbows bared; fury cannot be contained. Wolfish cruelty doubled with obstinate malice — no one will do business with such a person. The verse paints an escalation of aggression: from anger to violence to complete social ostracism. Duration here has calcified into chronic brutality: the anger endures but produces only isolation. From Duration to Biting Through, the thunder-wind's steady energy becomes lightning and thunder striking together — the judicial bolt that severs what cannot coexist. When enduring rage replaces enduring virtue, the community itself delivers the sentence: exclusion from the marketplace of human exchange.
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