中孚 → 同人
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
九二 鳴鶴在陰。其子和之。我有好爵。吾與爾靡之。
Nine in the second place means: A crane calling in the shade. Its young answers it. I have a good goblet. I will share it with you.
Line 3
六三 得敵。或鼓或罷。或泣或歌。
Six in the third place means: He finds a comrade. Now he beats the drum, now he stops. Now he sobs, now he sings.
Line 4
六四 月幾望。馬匹亡。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The moon nearly at the full. The team horse goes astray. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鴻飛循陸，公出不復，伯氏客宿。
A letter entrusted to the wild goose — but the goose flies on without stopping. Year after year heading south; the words never arrive.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, but the wild goose flies overland and the lord departs, never to return. The elder brother lodges as a stranger far from home. The original verse (鴻飛循陸，公出不復。伯氏客宿) describes permanent separation: the goose following the land rather than water suggests a journey gone astray, while the lord's departure without return and the brother's exile paint a picture of irreversible dispersal. From Inner Truth to Fellowship, sincerity at the center should yield to heaven joined with fire — the image of kindred spirits recognizing each other across distance. Yet the verse inverts this promise: the very bonds that should draw people together are severed, and the goose's flight, which ought to carry messages of reunion, traces only the geography of loss.
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