訟 → 同人
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
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 2
九二 不克訟。歸而逋其邑。人三百戶。无眚。
Nine in the second place means: One cannot engage in conflict; One returns home, gives way. The people of his town, Three hundred households, Remain free of guilt.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
子鉏執麟，春秋作元。陰聖將終，尼父悲心。
Zichu captures the qilin; the Spring and Autumn Annals begins. The age of hidden sagehood nears its end; Master Ni grieves in his heart.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose — and here the Spring and Autumn era reaches its bitter end. Zichushang captures the qilin, and Confucius begins the first year of the Annals. The hidden sage's work draws to a close; Father Ni grieves in his heart. In 481 BC, a charioteer of the Shusun clan caught a qilin in the Great Marsh — the benevolent beast that appears only under sage rule, now dragged from the mud of a disordered age. Confucius wept: 'My Way is exhausted!' From Conflict to Fellowship, the movement is from strife to heaven joined with fire — ideals made visible. Yet the verse is elegiac: the fellowship Confucius sought never materialized in his lifetime. His grief is the cost of seeing clearly in a world that refuses to look.
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