夬 → 家人
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 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 4
九四 臀无膚。其行次且。牽羊悔亡。聞言不信。
Nine in the fourth place means: There is no skin on his thighs, And walking comes hard. If a man were to let himself be led like a sheep, Remorse would disappear. But if these words are heard They will not be believed.
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
鳴鳩七子，均而不殆。長大成就，棄而合好。
The cooing dove with seven young, rearing them equally without harm. Grown to full stature, they part and then reunite in harmony.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake risen above heaven flows into the wind that emerges from fire. The turtledove feeds its seven chicks, distributing food evenly without harm to any. The young grow up and succeed, and though they disperse, bonds of affection endure. The turtledove was proverbially fair in feeding — giving each chick its due portion, a model of impartial parenting. Once raised, the fledglings leave the nest yet remain connected through love. From Breakthrough to the Family, decisive external action transforms into the warmth of domestic order. Wind from fire: what burns within radiates outward as gentle influence. The verse presents the ideal family — nourishment distributed justly, children flourishing, separation accepted but harmony preserved. Words have substance; conduct has constancy.
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