艮 → 睽
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).
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 2
六二 艮其腓。不拯其隨。其心不快。
Six in the second place means: Keeping his calves still. He cannot rescue him whom he follows. His heart is not glad.
Line 3
九三 艮其限。列其夤。厲熏心。
Nine in the third place means: Keeping his hips still. Making his sacrum stiff. Dangerous. The heart suffocates.
Line 4
六四 艮其身。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Keeping his trunk still. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
東風啟戶，隱伏懽喜。萌庶蒙恩，復得我子。
The east wind opens the door; hidden joy stirs within. The common folk receive grace; I recover my child once more.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, then the east wind opens the door. Hidden things stir with joy; the common people receive grace, and a lost child is recovered. The east wind is the wind of spring, the classical harbinger of renewal. What was concealed through winter now emerges. From Keeping Still to Opposition, mountain yields to fire above the lake, elements that seem to oppose yet serve a common purpose. Opposition's wisdom lies in finding unity within difference. The verse enacts this: stillness yields to its seeming opposite — movement, warmth, reunion — yet the child who returns was always part of the household. The mountain's long winter was not loss but gestation, and the east wind simply reveals what was already growing in the dark.
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