睽 → 晉
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鬭戰天門，身有何患？室家具在，不失其歡。
Battling at heaven's gate; what harm could touch this body? House and family remain intact; he does not lose his joy.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and a warrior battles at heaven's gate without sustaining harm. The verse is remarkably confident: though one fights at the threshold of the celestial realm — the highest and most perilous ground imaginable — the body suffers no injury, the household remains intact, and joy is undiminished. The 'gate of heaven' suggests both cosmic and military supremacy, a battle fought on the grandest stage with complete assurance. From Opposition to Progress, fire rises above the earth as the sun emerges from the ground, illuminating all with self-generating brightness. The transformation from estrangement to progress reveals that when one's cause is aligned with heaven's mandate, even the fiercest opposition yields only to advancing light.
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