兌 → 家人
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 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 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 6
上六 引兌。
Six at the top means: Seductive joyousness.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
安床厚褥，不得久宿。棄我嘉讌，困於東國。投杼之憂，不成災福。
A peaceful bed with thick quilts, yet unable to stay long. Abandoning my fine feast, trapped in the eastern lands. The worry of the thrown shuttle; it does not become disaster or blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes meet wind emerging from fire — The Family, where words carry substance and conduct holds constancy. A bed is made with thick quilts, yet one cannot stay long. The fine banquet is abandoned, and one is stranded in the eastern lands. Worry over a thrown shuttle — the old allusion of Zeng's mother fleeing on the third rumor — yet the crisis does not materialize into real disaster. From The Joyous to The Family, domestic comfort is disrupted by forced separation. The 'thrown shuttle' warns that repeated slander can fracture even family trust. Yet the verse resolves ambiguously: no true calamity, only the anxiety of distance. The family endures when words remain true despite separation.
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