睽 → 謙
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 15: Modesty
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
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 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 4
九四 睽孤。遇元夫。交孚。厲无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Isolated through opposition, One meets a like-minded man With whom one can associate in good faith. Despite the danger, no blame.
Line 6
上九 睽孤。見豕負塗。載鬼一車。先張之弧。後說之弧。匪寇婚媾。往遇雨則吉。
Nine at the top means: Isolated through opposition, One sees one's companion as a pig covered with dirt, As a wagon full of devils. First one draws a bow against him, then one lays the bow aside. He is not a robber; he will woo at the right time. As one goes, rain falls; then good fortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
異體殊俗，各有所屬。西鄰孤嫗，欲寄我室。主母罵詈，終不可得。
Different forms, foreign customs; each belongs to a separate kind. The old widow from the west quarter wished to lodge in my house. The matron cursed and scolded; in the end it could not be.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, bodies and customs differ, each belonging to a separate world. A lonely old woman from the western neighbor seeks shelter in another household, hoping to lodge there. But the matron of the house scolds and curses her, and the old woman is turned away, unable to find a place. The verse dramatizes the cruelty of estrangement between those who should be kin: different customs become walls, and charity freezes at the doorstep. From Opposition to Modesty, a mountain hidden within the earth, the transformation counsels that true accommodation requires lowering oneself. The mountain beneath the ground equalizes excess and deficit — but here no such leveling occurs, and the displaced remain displaced.
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