訟 → 兌
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
執玉歡喜，佩之解攣。危詳及安，使我無患。
Holding jade with delight; wearing it cures the cramp. Danger becomes safety; leaving me without affliction.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, yet one grasps jade and rejoices. Wearing it dissolves cramping and pain; peril, examined carefully, becomes safety, and all afflictions are dispelled. Jade in Han-dynasty belief possessed apotropaic and healing powers — it was not ornament but talisman, capable of warding off evil and harmonizing the body's qi. From Conflict to The Joyous, the doubled lake represents open communication and mutual delight. Dui's image is friends studying and discoursing together. The jade does for the body what Dui's openness does for the spirit: it dissolves the contractions caused by conflict and replaces them with free-flowing ease. Joy here is not frivolous but medicinal — the specific antidote to Conflict's rigidity.
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