兌 → 同人
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
九二 孚兌吉。悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Sincere joyousness. Good fortune. Remorse disappears.
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
當得自如，不逢凶災。衰者復興，終无禍來。
Managing affairs with natural ease, meeting no calamity or disaster. The declining revives and flourishes; in the end no misfortune comes.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes mirror each other in shared delight, and here the reflection yields harmony. All proceeds as one wishes, no calamity or misfortune arrives. The declining recovers its vigor; in the end, no disaster comes. Heaven and fire share the same upward tendency — the image of Fellowship — where like-minded people find natural accord. From The Joyous to Fellowship, personal delight broadens into communal harmony. The verse's quiet confidence suggests that when inner joy is authentic, it naturally attracts fellowship. Recovery from decline does not require dramatic intervention but merely the alignment of people who share a common direction.
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