訟 → 泰
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 不永所事。小有言。終吉。
Six at the beginning means: If one does not perpetuate the affair, There is a little gossip. In the end, good fortune comes.
Line 3
六三 食舊德。貞。厲終吉。或從王事。无成。
Six in the third place means: To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance. Danger. In the end, good fortune comes. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works.
Line 4
九四 不克訟。復即命。渝安貞。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: One cannot engage in conflict. One turns back and submits to fate, Changes one's attitude, And finds peace in perseverance. Good fortune.
Line 5
九五 訟。元吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: To contend before him Brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上九 或錫之鞶帶。終朝三褫之。
Nine at the top means: Even if by chance a leather belt is bestowed on one, By the end of a morning It will have been snatched away three times.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
弱水之西，有西王母。生不知死，與天相保。
West of the Weak Water, there is the Queen Mother of the West. Knowing life, not knowing death; she endures alongside heaven.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, but west of the Weak Water stands the Queen Mother of the West, who knows neither aging nor death, preserved forever alongside heaven itself. The Weak Water is the mythological river near Kunlun that cannot float even a feather — the boundary of the mortal world. Beyond it, the Queen Mother guards the peaches of immortality. From Conflict to Peace, the transformation is radical: heaven descends and earth rises until their energies mingle freely. The verse promises that transcendence is possible even from the heart of strife. When heaven and earth exchange, mortality dissolves. The Queen Mother embodies Tai's ultimate gift — cosmic communion beyond all opposition.
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