睽 → 蹇
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 39: Obstruction
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 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 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 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
東入海口，循流北走。一高一下，五邑无主。十日六夜，死於水涘。
Entering the sea mouth to the east; following the current running north. Rising and falling, high and low; five towns without a lord. Ten days and six nights; death at the water's brink.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and a journey enters the mouth of the eastern sea, following the current northward. The terrain rises and falls unpredictably, five towns lie abandoned without lords, and after ten days and six nights the traveler dies at the water's edge. The verse traces a doomed odyssey: entering the sea at its mouth means leaving solid ground forever, and the northward drift suggests being carried by forces beyond control. The lordless towns mark a landscape of political collapse. From Opposition to Obstruction, water piles upon the mountain, and the gentleman turns inward to cultivate virtue. The transformation from fatal drift to self-reflection suggests that when the external world dissolves into leaderless chaos, the only navigable terrain is one's own moral character.
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