損 → 睽
Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
六四 損其疾。使遄有喜。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: If a man deceases his faults, It makes the other hasten to come and rejoice. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
府藏之富，王以賑貸。捕魚河海，苟罔多得。
The riches of the treasury; the king uses them for relief and loans. Casting nets in rivers and seas; the mesh captures abundant catches.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain above lake gives way to fire above lake — Opposition, where two unlike elements illuminate each other across a divide. The royal treasury overflows with wealth; the king uses it to provide relief and loans. Casting nets in rivers and seas, the fisher spreads wide and catches abundantly. The verse pairs two acts of generous dispersal: the ruler distributing state wealth, the fisherman harvesting from the deep. From Decrease to Opposition, the mountain lifts away and fire blazes above the lake, their natures divergent yet complementary. Opposition's image is 'the gentleman acts alike yet differently' — finding unity in apparent contradiction. Decrease here is the act of giving away: the treasury diminishes so the people are fed, the net empties to fill the storehouse. Opposing motions produce mutual benefit.
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