訟 → 隨
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 17: Following
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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 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
甲乙丙丁，俱歸我庭。三丑六子，入門見母。
Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding -- all return to my courtyard. Three daughters, six sons; they enter the gate and see their mother.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, but the Heavenly Stems — jia, yi, bing, ding — all gather in one's courtyard. Three daughters-in-law and six sons enter the gate and see their mother. The calendrical language of the Stems evokes cosmic ordering: when the Stems are properly aligned, all things return to their rightful place. From Conflict to Following, thunder rests within the lake, yielding to the natural rhythm of evening rest. The verse embodies Following's principle: when one stops forcing and allows the natural sequence to unfold, family members converge without coercion. The household reunites not through command but through the gravitational pull of belonging.
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