明夷 → 泰
Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
Line 2
六二 明夷。夷于左股。用拯馬壯吉。
Six in the second place means: Darkening of the light injures him in the left thigh. He gives aid with the strength of a horse. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
切切之患，凶憂不成，虎不敢齚，利當我身。
Urgent, pressing danger; yet the misfortune does not come to pass. The tiger dares not bite; the benefit falls upon my person.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire descends into the earth and heaven rises to meet earth in the great exchange of Peace. Urgent fears press in — 'keen, cutting anxiety' — yet the threat dissolves: misfortune fails to materialize, the tiger dares not bite, and blessings fall upon the traveler. The image of a tiger that cannot attack recalls the Yi's own Treading hexagram, where one treads on the tiger's tail unhurt, but here it serves a different purpose: the worst-case scenario simply will not come to pass. From Darkening of the Light to Peace, the transformation is the most hopeful in the entire cycle. When heaven descends and earth ascends, communication flows between above and below, and even the terrors born of darkness lose their power to harm.
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