家人 → 乾
Hexagram 37: The Family → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
Line 2
六二 无攸遂。在中饋。貞吉。
Six in the second place means: She should not follow her whims. She must attend within to the food. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 4
六四 富家大吉。
Six in the fourth place means: She is the treasure of the house. Great good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
千歲槐根，身多斧瘢。傷癰擣理，枝葉不出。
A locust root of a thousand years, its body covered in axe scars. Wounds pounded into the grain; branches and leaves do not sprout.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind rises from fire in the family hearth, yet the ancient locust root tells a darker tale. A thousand-year-old tree bears countless axe scars across its trunk. Wounds fester and split the grain, and no new branches or leaves emerge. The image is one of a household lineage so battered by repeated blows that its regenerative power is spent. Each scar marks a crisis survived but never healed, until the accumulated damage becomes irreversible. From The Family to The Creative, the transformation demands self-generating vitality — heaven doubled, ceaselessly renewing. But the old root, though enduring, has been struck too many times to summon that initiative. Resilience without renewal is merely slow decay; the Creative requires not just survival but the will to put forth new growth.
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