夬 → 同人
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).
Line 2
九二 惕號。莫夜有戎。勿恤。
Nine in the second place means: A cry of alarm. Arms at evening and at night. Fear nothing.
Line 6
上六 无號。終有凶。
Six at the top means: No cry. In the end misfortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
坐爭立訟，紛紛匈匈。卒成禍亂，災及家公。
In the hall dividing the estate — bowls and plates smashed. In the courtyard, shouting and pointing, startling the neighbor's chickens. In the magistrate's court, kin become enemies — the family fortune scattered, each going their separate way.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake risen above heaven meets fire blazing beneath the open sky. The original verse reads: 'Sitting they quarrel, standing they litigate, voices raised in tumult, until catastrophe erupts and disaster reaches the patriarch.' Family disputes escalate from argument to lawsuit to outright ruin, consuming the household. The 'patriarch' who bears the final cost suggests a family head destroyed by factional fighting among his own. From Breakthrough to Fellowship, the transformation is bitterly ironic. Fellowship's image is fire under heaven — luminous unity — yet the verse shows its inverse: people who should be united tear each other apart. The decisive break that should have resolved tension instead fragments the household beyond repair.
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