晉 → 家人
Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 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 3
六三 眾允悔亡。
Six in the third place means: All are in accord. Remorse disappears.
Line 4
九四 晉如鼫鼠。貞厲。
Nine in the fourth place means: Progress like a hamster. Perseverance brings danger.
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
憂凶憎累，患近不解，心意西東，事无成功。
Sorrowful, fearful, loathing the burden; troubles near at hand, unresolved. The heart’s intent pulled east and west; nothing comes to fruition.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire rises above the earth, but worry, resentment, and accumulated burdens crowd in. Troubles nearby refuse to dissolve, the mind pulls east and west simultaneously, and nothing reaches completion. The verse captures paralysis through distraction: a person beset by competing anxieties who cannot commit to any single direction. The heart divided between east and west accomplishes precisely nothing. From Progress to the Family, the transformation prescribes the cure through contrast. Wind emerging from fire — words with substance and actions with constancy — this is the hexagram of domestic order. The scattered mind finds healing only when it returns to the household's anchor: consistent daily practice, reliable rhythms, the warmth that radiates outward from a centered hearth.
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