兌 → 乾
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
Line 3
六三 來兌凶。
Six in the third place means: Coming joyousness. Misfortune.
Line 6
上六 引兌。
Six at the top means: Seductive joyousness.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
踐履危難，脫危去患。入福喜門，見悔大君。
Treading through danger and hardship, escaping peril and leaving trouble behind. Entering the gate of fortune and joy, meeting the great lord with humble regret.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes mirror joy, but the verse shifts to treading through peril. One walks into danger and emerges unscathed, passing through the gate of fortune to meet a great lord. The imagery echoes hexagram 10 (Treading): stepping on the tiger's tail without being bitten. Joy here is not passive pleasure but the confidence that carries a person through crisis. From The Joyous to The Creative, lake's openness transforms into heaven's self-generating power. The one who treads danger with composure does not merely survive — that composure itself becomes the creative force that reshapes circumstance. Delight disciplined by courage ascends to sovereign initiative.
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