晉 → 師
Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 7: The Army
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
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 4
九四 晉如鼫鼠。貞厲。
Nine in the fourth place means: Progress like a hamster. Perseverance brings danger.
Line 6
上九 晉其角。維用伐邑。厲吉无咎。貞吝。
Nine at the top means: Making progress with the horns is permissible Only for the purpose of punishing one's own city. To be conscious of danger brings good fortune. No blame. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
嘵然唯諾，敬上尊客，執恭除患，禦侮致福。
Earnest in assent and compliance; respectful to superiors, honoring guests. Holding to reverence dispels calamity; warding off insult brings fortune.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire rises above the earth, and a careful voice answers with respectful compliance. Attentive and deferential, honoring superiors and welcoming guests, the figure maintains disciplined courtesy to ward off trouble and repel insult, thereby securing good fortune. The verse portrays the ideal subordinate: one who advances not through aggression but through scrupulous propriety. Every gesture calibrated, every response measured — humility becomes armor. From Progress to the Army, the transformation reveals how personal discipline scales to collective order. Water contained within the earth mirrors the disciplined masses awaiting direction: the courtier's individual restraint becomes the army's organizational strength, turning deference into strategic advantage.
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