睽 → 否
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
Line 1
初九 悔亡。喪馬勿逐自復。見惡人。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: Remorse disappears. If you lose your horse, do not run after it; It will come back of its own accord. When you see evil people, Guard yourself against mistakes.
Line 2
九二 遇主于巷。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: One meets his lord in a narrow street. No blame.
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
隔在九山，往來勞難。心結不通，失其所歡。
Separated by nine mountains; coming and going is toilsome and hard. The heart knotted, unable to reach through; he has lost his beloved.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, separation crystallized into geography. Nine mountains stand between, and every journey back and forth is grueling labor. The heart knotted shut, unable to communicate, one loses the beloved entirely. The verse distills estrangement into its purest spatial form: not a quarrel, not a betrayal, but sheer insurmountable distance. The nine mountains are both literal and symbolic — each range another layer of obstruction between minds that once touched freely. From Opposition to Standstill, heaven and earth refuse to mingle, each retreating to its own sphere. The transformation confirms the paralysis: when communication ceases, the gentleman must practice frugal virtue and endure the dark passage, for no force can compel what will not meet.
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