蒙 → 同人
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 發蒙。利用刑人。用說桎梏。以往吝。
Six at the beginning means: To make a fool develop It furthers one to apply discipline. The fetters should be removed. To go on in this way bring humiliation.
Line 2
九二 包蒙吉。納婦吉。子克家。
Nine in the second place means: To bear with fools in kindliness brings good fortune. To know how to take women Brings good fortune. The son is capable of taking charge of the household.
Line 3
六三 勿用取女。見金夫。不有躬。无攸利。
Six in the third place means: Take not a maiden who, when she sees a man of bronze, Loses possession of herself. Nothing furthers.
Line 4
六四 困蒙。吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Entangled folly bring humiliation.
Line 5
六五 童蒙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Childlike folly brings good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
所受大喜，福祿重來。樂且日富，蒙慶得財。
Receiving great joy; blessings and fortune come again. Happy and daily richer; receiving favor and gaining wealth.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain bursts into daylight as blessings arrive in abundance. Great joy is received, fortune and prosperity return in waves. Days grow richer and more joyful; even amid youthful folly, celebration brings wealth. The verse is almost purely auspicious — a cascade of good fortune without qualification. From Youthful Folly to Fellowship, the transformation suggests that when naive openness meets the warmth of community, blessings multiply. Heaven and fire illuminate together, and the spring that once groped in darkness now finds companions who share its light. Fellowship transforms ignorance into shared prosperity, not through instruction but through the simple generosity of belonging.
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