明夷 → 同人

Commentary

Fire beneath the earth meets fire beneath heaven — Fellowship, where the flame that was buried now joins a communal blaze. Yet the verse describes seasonal disorder: 'Cold and heat lose their timing, yang-drought becomes disaster.' When the natural rhythm of warm and cool fails, drought scorches the fields. Still, the closing reassurance holds: 'Though there is loss, there is no worry.' The damage is real but not ruinous. From Darkening of the Light to Fellowship, the transformation suggests that even when darkened brilliance re-emerges improperly — as unseasonable heat rather than nurturing light — the bonds of community can absorb the shock. Fellowship's principle of 'classifying by kind' means disruption is contained within a system that recognizes and sorts its elements.