大壯 → 同人
Hexagram 34: Great Power → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 5
六五 喪羊于易。无悔。
Six in the fifth place means: Loses the goat with ease. No remorse.
Line 6
上六 羝羊觸藩。不能退。不能遂。无攸利。艱則吉。
Six at the top means: A goat butts against a hedge. It cannot go backward, it cannot go forward. Nothing serves to further. If one notes the difficulty, this brings good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
老弱无子，不能自理，郭氏雖憂，終不離咎，管子治國，侯伯之服，乘輿八百，尊祀祖德。
Old and frail, without an heir; unable to tend to himself. Though the Guo clan grieves, in the end they cannot escape blame. Guan Zhong governs the state; lords and earls submit. Eight hundred chariots in the retinue; he honors the ancestral rites.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above heaven yields to the union of heaven and fire in Fellowship. The verse opens with desolation — the old and weak without heirs, unable to manage affairs — then pivots sharply to Guan Zhong governing Qi. Under his stewardship, Duke Huan achieved hegemony: eight hundred war chariots assembled, ancestral virtue was honored, and the feudal lords submitted. Guan Zhong rose from poverty and near-execution to become the architect of Qi's dominance, a transformation from helplessness to supreme administrative power. From Great Power to Fellowship, fire blazes alongside heaven, classifying and unifying diverse peoples. The verse embodies this: what begins as isolated weakness becomes, through capable leadership, a gathering of allies under shared purpose.
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