睽 → 履
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Line 5
六五 悔亡。厥宗噬膚。往何咎。
Six in the fifth place means: Remorse disappears. The companion bites his way through the wrappings. If one goes to him, How could it be a mistake?
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
昧暮乘車，履危蹈溝。亡失群物，摧折兩軸。
Dim twilight, mounting a carriage; treading peril, falling into a ditch. Possessions lost and scattered; both axles broken.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, vision estranged from footing. A traveler drives through dusk so dim that the road ahead vanishes, treading on danger and plunging into ditches. Possessions scatter and both axles snap, leaving the carriage wrecked in darkness. The verse is a study in compounded misjudgment: setting out too late, seeing too poorly, moving too fast for the conditions. Each error feeds the next until the whole conveyance collapses. From Opposition to Treading, heaven above and lake below define proper hierarchy. The transformation insists on careful discernment of boundaries: one must distinguish safe ground from peril before stepping forward. Treading on the tiger's tail requires clarity — exactly what this benighted traveler lacks.
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