恆 → 需
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 5: Waiting
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
張牙切齒，斷怒相及，咎起蕭墻，牽引吾子。
Baring fangs, gnashing teeth; fury and wrath reach one another. Blame arises within the walls; it entangles our children.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind — Duration's steadying force — gives way to water above heaven, Waiting's patient tension. Teeth are bared and fists clenched; rage passes from one to another unchecked. Trouble rises from within the walls themselves, echoing Confucius's warning that 'the danger to the Ji family lies not beyond but within the screens of Zhuanyu.' The disaster drags one's own children into harm. The phrase 'trouble at the inner wall' (蕭墻) is one of the Analerta's most famous political metaphors. From Duration to Waiting, the steady rhythm that should hold a household together instead amplifies internal friction. What endures is not unity but resentment, fermenting behind the very walls meant to protect.
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