巽 → 睽
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).
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 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
春陽生草，夏長條肄。萬物蕃滋，充實益有。
Spring sunlight sprouts the grass; summer lengthens branch and shoot. All things flourish and multiply; fullness and abundance increase.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into fire over lake: the Gentle becomes Opposition. Spring sunlight quickens the grass; summer lengthens the shoots and branches. The ten thousand things flourish abundantly, growing full and ever more plentiful. The verse is a pure celebration of natural growth: spring germinates, summer extends, and life multiplies without interruption. From The Gentle to Opposition, fire above and lake below — two forces that naturally diverge. Yet the verse finds no conflict here. Instead, the opposition between spring's initiating warmth and summer's sustaining heat produces complementary abundance. Wind's steady nourishment feeds both seasons. Opposition, at its best, is not antagonism but the productive tension of unlike forces cooperating across their difference.
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