萃 → 睽
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 有孚不終。乃亂乃萃。若號一握為笑。勿恤。往无咎。
Six at the beginning means: If you are sincere, but not to the end, There will sometimes be confusion, sometimes gathering together. If you call out, Then after one grasp of the hand you can laugh again. Regret not. Going is without blame.
Line 2
六二 引吉无咎。孚乃利用禴。
Six in the second place means: Letting oneself be drawn Brings good fortune and remains blameless. If one is sincere, It furthers one to bring even a small offering.
Line 5
九五 萃有位。无咎匪孚。元永貞。悔亡。
Nine in the fifth place means: If in gathering together one has position, This brings no blame. If there are some who are not yet sincerely in the work, Sublime and enduring perseverance is needed. Then remorse disappears.
Line 6
上六 齎咨涕洟。无咎。
Six at the top means: Lamenting and sighing, floods of tears. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
目不可合，憂來搔足。悚惕恐懼，去其邦域。
Eyes unable to close; worry comes, he scratches his feet. Trembling with dread and fear, he departs his homeland.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth transforms into fire above the lake, the estrangement of Opposition. Eyes cannot close; anxiety comes and one scratches one's feet in agitation. Trembling with dread and fear, one flees the homeland. The verse renders insomnia as political terror: sleeplessness born not of trivial worry but of existential threat, the kind that makes a person abandon everything and run. The body language is telling: scratching the feet suggests restless pacing, a person who cannot sit still, cannot sleep, cannot remain. From Gathering to Opposition, the gathered community has become the source of danger. Fire and lake pull in opposite directions, and what once held people together now drives them apart. The homeland itself has become uninhabitable.
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