睽 → 剝
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
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
皋田禾黍，搥壤麻阜。衣食我躬，室家饒有。
Marsh fields of grain and millet; pounding the earth, hemp on the hillside. Clothing and feeding my body; the household has plenty.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, estranged elements, yet the low-lying fields yield their harvest quietly. On the marshy terraces, millet and grain grow thick; hemp and flax cover the hillsides where the soil is pounded smooth. These crops clothe and feed the farmer's own body, and the household overflows with sufficiency. The verse is a pastoral counterpoint to Opposition's usual discord — here, patient cultivation of humble ground produces genuine abundance. No one fights, no one flees; the earth simply gives. From Opposition to Splitting Apart, the mountain rests upon the earth, and those above must strengthen what is below. The transformation warns that even this quiet plenty is fragile: abundance can erode if its foundation is neglected. The ruler must thicken the base to secure the dwelling.
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