晉 → 履
Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
Line 1
初六 晉如摧如。貞吉。罔孚。裕无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Progressing, but turned back. Perseverance brings good fortune. If one meets with no confidence, one should remain calm. No mistake.
Line 2
六二 晉如愁如。貞吉。受茲介福。于其王母。
Six in the second place means: Progressing, but in sorrow. Perseverance brings good fortune. Then one obtains great happiness from one's ancestress.
Line 5
六五 悔亡。失得勿恤。往吉无不利。
Six in the fifth place means: Remorse disappears. Take not gain and loss to heart. Undertakings bring good fortune. Everything serves to further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
倚立相望，引衣欲莊，陰雲蔽日，暴雨祈集，降我歡會，使道不通。
Leaning and gazing at each other; pulling at robes to look proper. Dark clouds hide the sun; violent rain gathers and falls. It halts our joyful meeting; the road is blocked and impassable.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire rises above the earth, and two figures stand at a distance, gazing toward each other, adjusting their robes in anticipation of a meeting. But dark clouds blot out the sun, a sudden downpour gathers, and the joyful reunion they longed for is ruined — the road between them becomes impassable. The verse captures the agony of near-connection severed by circumstance. From Progress to Treading, the transformation reveals the irony: heaven above the lake defines proper boundaries, yet here the boundary is enforced by weather rather than propriety. The path is blocked not by cosmic design but by cruel timing. Treading carefully upon the tiger's tail demands awareness — sometimes the obstacle is not the tiger but the rain.
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