家人 → 中孚
Hexagram 37: The Family → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
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 3
九三 家人嗃嗃。悔厲吉。婦子嘻嘻。終吝。
Nine in the third place means: When tempers flare up in the family, Too great severity brings remorse. Good fortune nonetheless. When woman and child dally and laugh It leads in the end to humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
禍走患伏，喜為我福。凶惡消亡，災害不作。
Dark clouds scatter to reveal blue sky; a dove calls from the branch announcing clear weather. Snow before the gate has just finished melting — below the steps, new shoots break through the bricks.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind from fire clears the sky after the storm. The original verse reads: 'Calamity retreats and misfortune hides; joy becomes my blessing. Evil and harm vanish; disasters cease to arise.' After a prolonged period of danger, the clouds part and light returns. The verse is a declaration of release — not the arrival of something new, but the withdrawal of everything harmful. The family emerges from crisis into clear air. From The Family to Inner Truth, wind moves above the lake as sincerity reaches the hearts of even the smallest creatures. Inner Truth's power is that genuine faith transforms circumstances without force. The disasters depart not because they are defeated but because the family's inner coherence makes them unsustainable. Sincerity, like wind over water, dissolves what is false.
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