睽 → 益
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 42: Increase
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
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 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?
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
賴先休光，受福之祉。雖遭亂潰，獨不危殆。
Relying on the ancestor's glorious light; receiving the blessings of fortune. Though beset by turmoil and collapse; alone he is not endangered.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and one draws upon the brilliance of ancestors past. Relying on the glory and grace of forebears, one receives fortune's blessing. Though chaos erupts and disorder swirls all around, this person alone escapes danger and remains unharmed. The verse celebrates inherited moral capital: the accumulated virtue of prior generations functions as a protective shield, allowing descendants to pass through catastrophe unscathed. The 'ancestral light' is not mere luck but earned spiritual credit. From Opposition to Increase, wind and thunder reinforce each other as the gentleman sees good and moves toward it, perceives error and corrects it. The transformation reveals that ancestral blessing finds its full expression when the heir actively cultivates virtue — passively relying on inherited grace is not enough.
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