艮 → 咸
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
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.
Line 6
上九 敦艮吉。
Nine at the top means: Noblehearted keeping still. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
旦奭王輔，周德孔明。越裳獻雉，萬國咸康。
Dan and Shi, the king's pillars; the virtue of Zhou shines bright. Yuechang offers a pheasant in tribute; the ten thousand states are all at peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, and the Duke of Zhou and Duke of Shao serve as pillars of the royal house. Zhou's virtue shines brilliantly, and the distant Yueshang people send white pheasants as tribute — all nations find peace and prosperity. According to tradition, during the Duke of Zhou's regency for the young King Cheng, the realm was so well governed that the Yueshang, a people from beyond the southern seas, crossed multiple translation barriers to present a white pheasant, saying they recognized a sage in the Central Kingdom. From Keeping Still to Influence, mountain meets lake atop the mountain. Influence operates through receptive openness — the mountain's firm stillness paired with the lake's yielding surface creates a resonance that draws distant peoples of their own accord.
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