訟 → 革
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 49: Revolution
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 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 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 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
黃帝建元，文德在身。祿若陽春，封為魯君。
The Yellow Emperor establishes the era; civil virtue is upon him. His bounty is like spring sun; enfeoffed as lord of Lu.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, but here the Yellow Emperor establishes the first calendar, his person imbued with civil virtue. Blessings flow like spring sunlight, and the recipient is enfeoffed as Lord of Lu. The Yellow Emperor's calendar marks the ordering of time itself — the most fundamental act of civilization, imposing rhythm on chaos. The investiture as Lord of Lu evokes the Duke of Zhou, who was enfeoffed at Lu and whose descendants preserved Zhou ritual for centuries. From Conflict to Revolution, fire burns within the lake, the image of the ruler who reforms the calendar and clarifies the seasons. Ge is transformation through legitimate reordering. The verse matches it: when a sage-king establishes true measurement of time, all disorder yields to the new order.
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