睽 → 同人
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
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 3
六三 見輿曳。其牛掣。其人天且劓。无初有終。
Six in the third place means: One sees the wagon dragged back, The oxen halted, A man's hair and nose cut off. Not a good beginning, but a good end.
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
下流難居，狂夫多罷。貞良溫柔，年歲不富。
A low station is hard to dwell in; the reckless man grows weary. The steadfast and gentle one; his years are not enriched.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and the low-lying ground proves hard to inhabit. In degraded quarters, reckless men exhaust themselves in futile strife, while the upright and gentle soul finds no prosperity despite years of effort. The verse contrasts two modes of failure: the coarse fail through excess, the virtuous fail through scarcity. Neither finds a footing in this disordered terrain. From Opposition to Fellowship, fire rises to meet heaven, and the gentleman distinguishes categories and discerns things. The transformation suggests that when the landscape is hostile to all, the path forward lies not in individual struggle but in finding true companions — sorting allies from adversaries with the clarity that fire in heaven provides.
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