恆 → 睽
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
日莫閉目，隨陽休息，箕子以之，乃受其福。
As the sun sets, the eyes close; following the yang, one rests. Jizi took this as his way and thereby received his blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's steady rhythm, splits into fire above lake — Opposition's divergent visions. At dusk one closes the eyes and follows the sun to rest; the Viscount of Ji took this path and thereby received his blessings. Jizi, uncle of the tyrant Zhou of Shang, feigned madness and submitted to slavery to survive the corrupt court. His 'closing the eyes at dusk' is the wisdom of strategic self-concealment — resting when darkness falls rather than fighting it. By enduring through Opposition's contradictions, he preserved himself for the dawn after the dynasty's fall. From Duration to Opposition, the fire and lake pull apart, yet Jizi's patient endurance within that tension earned him survival and eventual honor when King Wu enfeoffed him at Joseon.
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