訟 → 晉
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
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 5
九五 訟。元吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: To contend before him Brings supreme good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
右手棄酒，左手牧牂。行逢禮御，餌得玉杯。
Right hand discards wine, left hand tends the ewe. Meeting a ceremonial escort on the road; rewarded with a jade cup.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, yet a curious bargain unfolds. The right hand discards wine, the left hand tends ewes — one pleasure abandoned for a different kind of gain. Then fortune intervenes: a ritual procession is encountered on the road, and the traveler receives a jade cup as reward. The exchange is asymmetric: what was released voluntarily returns in nobler form. From Conflict to Progress, fire rises above the earth, brilliance emerging from the ground. Jin's image is the Marquis of Kang receiving horses from the Son of Heaven — merit recognized and rewarded. The verse captures this upward trajectory: let go of what merely intoxicates, attend to what nourishes, and recognition meets you on the road.
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