節 → 家人
Hexagram 60: Limitation → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
九二 不出門庭。凶。
Nine in the second place means: Not going out of the gate and the courtyard Brings misfortune.
Line 3
六三 不節若。則嗟若。无咎。
Six in the third place means: He who knows no limitation Will have cause to lament. No blame.
Line 6
上六 苦節貞凶。悔亡。
Six at the top means: Galling limitation. Perseverance brings misfortune. Remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天所佑助，福來禍去，君王何憂？
What heaven aids and protects, blessings arrive, calamities depart. What worry has the king?
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water over lake holds everything in measure, and this verse declares that heaven itself assists those who govern with measure. Heaven protects and helps; blessings arrive while calamities depart. What has the ruler to worry about? The verse radiates an almost liturgical confidence — the assurance that cosmic support flows toward the righteous sovereign without need for anxious intervention. From Limitation to the Family, the transformation brings this divine favor home. Wind emerges from fire — warmth within the household radiating outward as gentle influence. The ruler protected by heaven governs as a patriarch whose words carry substance and whose actions maintain constancy. Limitation's regulatory framework, when blessed from above, becomes the Family's organic harmony: order not imposed but naturally sustained through mutual care.
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