恆 → 艮
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
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
南山昊天，刺政關身，疾病無辜，背增為仇。
The southern mountain and the vast heaven; governance stings the very self. Illness and suffering without guilt; resentment redoubles into enmity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's active constancy, settles into doubled mountain — Keeping Still's absolute arrest. The southern mountain rises under a vast heaven; political critique touches one's very person. Illness strikes the innocent; those who turn their backs become enemies. The phrase 'southern mountain, vast heaven' (南山昊天) echoes the Shijing ode criticizing a powerful minister — 'Lofty is the southern mountain, with rocks piled high.' Political satire brings personal danger: the one who speaks truth to power finds the power turning against him. From Duration to Keeping Still, the thunder-and-wind's movement freezes into absolute stillness. The critic who dared to persist in speaking is now pinned in place — still, ill, surrounded by those whose backs are turned. Enduring speech meets enforced silence.
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