中孚 → 隨
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 17: Following
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
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 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.
Line 6
上九 翰音登于天。貞凶。
Nine at the top means: Cockcrow penetrating to heaven. Perseverance brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
蜩螗歡翹，草木嘉茂。百果蕃生，日益多有。
Cicadas sing and leap joyfully; grass and trees flourish in beauty. A hundred fruits grow abundant; increasing more each day.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, and the world bursts into abundance. Cicadas sing with lifted wings; grasses and trees flourish luxuriantly. A hundred fruits multiply; day by day there is more. The verse is pure summer vitality — insects chorus, vegetation riots, orchards swell. No crisis, no allusion, no complication; simply the natural world at its most generous. From Inner Truth to Following, sincerity at the center yields to thunder resting within the lake, energy held in seasonal rhythm. Following means aligning with the natural cycle: the cicadas do not choose to sing; they follow the season. Abundance here is not seized but received, the effortless harvest that comes when one's inner timing matches the world's.
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