恆 → 賁
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 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 4
九四 田无禽。
Nine in the fourth place means: No game in the field.
Line 6
上六 振恆凶。
Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
販馬賣牛，會值虛空，利得尠少，留連為憂。
Selling horses, trading oxen; the market meets emptiness. Profit gained is scant and meager; lingering on brings only worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's steady rhythm, settles into mountain above fire — Grace's quiet adornment. One sells horses and trades cattle at market, but the timing is wrong — the stalls are empty. Profits are meager, and lingering only deepens the worry. The merchant's persistence fails not from lack of effort but from poor timing: the market cycle has turned against him. Duration's virtue is staying the course, but the verse warns against persisting in an unfavorable position. From Duration to Grace, thunder-wind's drive encounters the mountain's stillness lit by firelight below. Grace beautifies but does not generate; the adorned marketplace may look promising yet yield nothing when substance is absent beneath the surface.
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