恆 → 咸
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
簪短帶長，幽思苦窮，瘠蠡小瘦，以病之隆。
The hairpin is short, the sash too long; brooding thoughts and bitter poverty. Gaunt and thin, wasted and slight; illness grows ever more grave.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's joined constancy, meets its inverse: lake above mountain — Influence's mutual attraction. The hairpin is too short, the belt too long; hidden brooding brings bitter exhaustion. Thin and wasted, emaciated and shrunken, illness grows ever more severe. Everything is mismatched: ornaments that do not fit the wearer, a body that cannot sustain its own frame. Duration's steadiness has turned pathological — what persists is not health but chronic decline. The mismatch of pin and belt suggests a relationship where the parts no longer correspond. From Duration to Influence, the enduring bond between thunder and wind confronts the lake-mountain attraction of Xian. But attraction without proper proportion wastes the body; longing sustained too long becomes the disease itself.
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