恆 → 巽
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
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
怨虱燒被，忿怒生禍，偏心作難，意如為亂。
Resenting the lice, burning the bedding; rage gives birth to disaster. A biased heart stirs calamity; Yi Ru creates the rebellion.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's regulated persistence, dissolves into doubled wind — the Gentle's penetrating influence. Resentment over lice leads to burning the bedding; petty anger spawns disaster. A biased heart creates turmoil — Yiru plots his rebellion. The verse moves from trivial irritation to political catastrophe: destroying the blanket to kill the vermin is a proverb for disproportionate response. 'Yiru' (意如) refers to Ji Yiru, also known as Ji Pingzi, the powerful head of the Ji clan in Lu. His factional machinations and power struggles with subordinates like Nan Kuai triggered upheavals in Lu during the late Spring and Autumn period. From Duration to the Gentle, the wind doubles and penetrates everywhere — grievance sustained too long seeps into every crack, and what began as a minor irritation corrodes the entire structure.
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