巽 → 晉
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).
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.
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.
Line 5
九五 貞吉悔亡。无不利。无初有終。先庚三日。後庚三日。吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes. Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end. Before the change, three days. After the change, three days. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
百足俱行，相輔為強。三聖翼事，王室寵光。
Spring wind fills the sails; a hundred boats cross together. Reaching the far shore as one, drums and music celebrate.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into fire over earth: the Gentle becomes Progress. The original verse reads: 'A hundred feet march together, mutually strengthening as they go. Three sages assist in governance, and the royal house is honored with glory.' The centipede's hundred legs move in concert — a perfect metaphor for coordinated collective effort. The three sages likely refer to the Duke of Zhou, Taigong, and the Duke of Shao, who together stabilized the young Zhou dynasty. From The Gentle to Progress, brightness emerges above the earth: the sun rising at dawn, illuminating all below. Wind's patient influence has aligned many forces into unified advance, and with sages guiding the enterprise, the royal house shines with renewed brilliance.
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