睽 → 訟
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
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 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
山沒丘浮，陸為水魚，燕雀无廬。
Mountains submerged, hills afloat; dry land becomes a realm of fish. Swallows and sparrows have lost their shelter.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, the world inverted. Mountains sink beneath the waves, hilltops float like boats, dry land turns to fish ponds, and the sparrows and swallows lose their nests entirely. The verse depicts total environmental catastrophe: the natural order so thoroughly overturned that every creature is displaced from its proper station. This is estrangement carried to the absolute extreme — not merely between people but between earth and water, land and sky. From Opposition to Conflict, heaven and water move in contrary directions. The transformation deepens division into a fundamental dispute between elements that should cooperate. When the very ground dissolves, no appeal to custom or prior agreement can help; one must plan from the very beginning.
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