恆 → 家人
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 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 4
九四 田无禽。
Nine in the fourth place means: No game in the field.
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
昧之東域，誤過虎邑，失我熊胔，飢無所食。
Benighted in the eastern wilds, straying into the tiger’s domain. Losing my bear meat; starving, with nothing to eat.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's familiar rhythm, enters wind above fire — the Family's domestic order. Blundering through the eastern darkness, one strays into the Tiger District. The bear carcass is lost, and hunger follows with nothing to eat. The traveler has wandered off course into dangerous territory — the 'Tiger District' (虎邑) suggests a lawless or predatory locale. The provisions (bear meat) are lost, leaving the wanderer starving. Duration should keep one on the familiar path, but disorientation has undone the routine entirely. From Duration to the Family, the wind-fire image of domestic warmth contrasts painfully with the verse's desolation. The household order that should sustain the traveler has been left behind, and without that anchor, even Duration's persistence leads only deeper into hostile wilderness.
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