恆 → 中孚
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 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 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 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
被蔽復貌，危者得安，鄉善無患，商人有息。
Concealed and hidden, yet the true form appears; the endangered one finds peace. Turning toward goodness, free from calamity; the merchant earns his profit.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's reliable pattern, opens into wind above lake — Inner Truth's resonant sincerity. What was concealed is restored to its proper form; the endangered find safety. Those who face toward goodness escape calamity, and merchants earn their profits. The verse traces a movement from disguise to restoration, from peril to security. The covering is removed and the original appearance returns — truth reasserts itself through time. Duration's patience is the mechanism: what was hidden endures until the moment of revelation. From Duration to Inner Truth, the wind above the lake carries the crane's cry across the marshes — sincerity that penetrates all barriers. The merchant's profits and the good person's safety both result from the same principle: authentic conduct, sustained over time, eventually receives its proper recognition.
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