兌 → 頤
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 孚兌吉。悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Sincere joyousness. Good fortune. Remorse disappears.
Line 4
九四 商兌未寧。介疾有喜。
Nine in the fourth place means: Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy.
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Line 6
上六 引兌。
Six at the top means: Seductive joyousness.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
啟戶開門，巡狩釋冤。夏臺羑里，湯文悅喜。
Opening doors and gates, the royal tour releases the wronged. Xiatai and Youli prisons: Tang and Wen rejoice.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes yield to thunder beneath the mountain — Nourishment, the careful governance of what enters and exits. Open the doors, release prisoners on inspection tours: at Xiatai and Youli, Tang and Wen rejoice. King Tang was imprisoned at Xiatai by the tyrant Jie before founding the Shang dynasty; King Wen was held at Youli by King Zhou of Shang before the Zhou revolution. Both endured unjust confinement and emerged to establish righteous rule. From The Joyous to Nourishment, the verse celebrates liberation as a form of sustenance. To nourish the realm is to open its prisons — freeing the wrongly confined feeds the body politic with justice.
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