巽 → 同人
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).
Line 1
初六 進退。利武人之貞。
Six at the beginning means: In advancing and in retreating, The perseverance of a warrior furthers.
Line 2
九二 巽在牀下。用史巫。紛若。吉。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: Penetration under the bed. Priests and magicians are used in great number. Good fortune. No blame.
Line 4
六四 悔亡。田獲三品。
Six in the fourth place means: Remorse vanishes. During the hunt Three kinds of game are caught.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天旱水涸，枯槁无澤，未有所獲。
Heaven sends drought, waters dry up; withered and parched, no moisture. Nothing is gained.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into heaven over fire: the Gentle becomes Fellowship. Heaven is parched, the waters have dried, everything withered and without moisture — nothing is obtained. The verse is starkly minimal: drought, desiccation, barrenness. Where fire and heaven should unite people under a shared illumination, here the land is too dry to sustain any gathering. From The Gentle to Fellowship, the irony is bitter. Heaven and fire together should mean the clarity that brings people into community, classifying by kind and distinguishing things. But when wind carries only dry heat instead of nourishing moisture, fellowship becomes impossible. The commons is scorched; there is nothing left to share.
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