艮 → 同人
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 艮其趾。无咎。利永貞。
Six at the beginning means: Keeping his toes still. No blame. Continued perseverance furthers.
Line 4
六四 艮其身。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Keeping his trunk still. No blame.
Line 5
六五 艮其輔。言有序。悔亡。
Six in the fifth place means: Keeping his jaws still. The words have order. Remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
脛急股攣，不可出門。暮速歸旅，必為身患。
Calves cramped, thighs knotted; one cannot pass through the gate. Hastening home at dusk will surely bring bodily affliction.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, and the body itself enforces the stopping. Calves cramp and thighs seize — one literally cannot step through the door. Venturing out at dusk invites bodily harm. The hexagram of Keeping Still famously speaks of 'stopping the back' and 'not obtaining the body,' and this verse drives the point home with visceral physical symptoms. From Keeping Still to Fellowship, doubled mountain should yield to heaven joined with fire, the image of like minds gathering under a shared sky. Yet the crippled legs prevent any such union. The verse warns that enforced isolation — whether by the body's failure or circumstance — inverts fellowship into its opposite. One cannot join what one cannot reach.
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