巽 → 觀
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 20: Contemplation
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
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 3
九三 頻巽吝。
Nine in the third place means: Repeated penetration. Humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
讒言亂國，覆是為非。伯奇流離，恭子憂哀。
Slanderous words disorder the state; right becomes wrong. Bo Qi wanders in exile; the filial son grieves in sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into wind over earth: the Gentle becomes Contemplation. Slanderous words throw the state into chaos, inverting right and wrong. Boqi wanders in exile; the virtuous son grieves in sorrow. Boqi was the son of the Zhou minister Yin Jifu, falsely accused by his stepmother of impropriety. His father believed the slander and exiled him. In the wilderness, Boqi composed the famous guqin lament 'Treading on Frost.' From The Gentle to Contemplation, wind sweeping over the earth should allow the ruler to observe his people and set right teachings. But here the wind carries only slander, and contemplation reveals injustice: the filial son cast out, truth overturned by a poisoned tongue.
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