睽 → 大過
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 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 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?
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
焱風卒起，車馳袍褐。棄古追亡，失其和節，心憂惙惙。
A blazing wind rises suddenly; the carriage races, the cloak flies off. Abandoning the old to chase the lost; losing harmony and measure, the heart grieves bitterly.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and a sudden violent wind tears through without warning. Chariots race wildly, robes and coats flapping in the blast, as someone abandons the old and chases what has already fled. Harmony and measure are lost; the heart fills with anxious dread. The verse captures the panic of someone who has thrown away stable foundations to pursue a vanishing opportunity — a gambler who bets everything on speed and loses rhythm entirely. From Opposition to Great Exceeding, the lake overwhelms the trees, the ridgepole sags under intolerable weight. The transformation confirms the excess: what began as estrangement has become structural overload. The gentleman stands alone without fear, but this figure has already broken his own ridgepole through reckless haste.
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