訟 → 巽
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
行觸大忌，與司命牾，執囚束縛，拘制於吏。
Actions violate a great taboo; offending the Arbiter of Fate. Seized, bound, and imprisoned; restrained by officials.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, and someone blunders into a great prohibition. Offending the Director of Fate — the celestial official who governs human lifespan — the transgressor is seized, bound, and detained by the authorities. The Director of Fate (司命) controls the registry of life and death; to cross this power is to violate the cosmic order itself. From Conflict to The Gentle, doubled wind penetrates everywhere, carrying the sovereign's commands into the smallest corners. Xun's image is orders repeated and pervasive — inescapable authority. The verse captures this perfectly: once you have offended the wrong power, the gentle wind of law finds you everywhere. There is no corner deep enough to hide from institutional reach.
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