睽 → 坤
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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
邑姜叔子，天文在手。實沉參墟，封為晉侯。
Yi Jiang's worthy son; the patterns of heaven in his hand. Shi Chen and Shen Xu aligned; he was enfeoffed as Marquis of Jin.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, two forces pulling apart, yet destiny weaves them back together. Lady Yijiang, wife of King Wu of Zhou, bore a son with the character 'Yu' inscribed on his palm. Astronomical signs confirmed his fate: the stellar lodge Shichen, associated with the ancient Shen territory, aligned with the land of Tang. According to the Zuo Zhuan, King Cheng of Zhou — honoring a playful promise made with a tung leaf — enfeoffed the boy as lord of Tang, later renamed Jin. From Opposition to The Receptive, earth upon earth, estrangement gives way to the vast acceptance of terrain. Divergent signs scattered across heaven and palm converge through patient receptivity, and what seems sundered resolves into the founding of a great state upon yielding ground.
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