睽 → 豫
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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
怒非怨妬，貪得腐鼠。而呼鵲鸇，自令失餌，致被困患。
Not from hatred or jealousy; coveting a rotten mouse. He calls the magpie and the hawk; and so loses his own bait, bringing trouble upon himself.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and anger misdirected spoils everything. The verse opens with fury born not of real grievance but of jealous greed: someone covets a rotten mouse and, in the frenzy to possess it, calls down hawks and falcons upon the scene. The intervention of predators, summoned for a worthless prize, scatters the original quarry and leaves the instigator trapped in self-made calamity. Desire for something contemptible mobilizes forces that cannot be controlled. From Opposition to Enthusiasm, thunder bursts from the earth in celebration. The transformation suggests that true joy arises from communal devotion and music, not from hoarding trivialities — but this figure, fixated on his rotten mouse, inverts the dynamic and manufactures disaster from nothing.
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