中孚 → 晉
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 虞吉。有他不燕。
Nine at the beginning means: Being prepared brings good fortune. If there are secret designs, it is disquieting.
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 5
九五 有孚攣如。无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: He possesses truth, which links together. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
日月運行，一寒一暑。榮寵赫赫，不可得保。顛躓殞墜，更為士伍。
Sun and moon revolve; one cold season, one hot. Radiant favor blazing bright; cannot be preserved. Stumbling and falling; becoming a common soldier.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake as sun and moon revolve, alternating between cold and heat. Favor blazes gloriously bright, yet cannot be preserved. One stumbles and falls, demoted to the rank of common soldier. The verse traces the arc of political fortune: from dazzling court favor to disgrace and exile, as inevitable as the turning seasons. From Inner Truth to Progress, sincerity meets fire emerging above the earth — the image of the sun rising at dawn. Yet the verse reads Progress in reverse: the sun that rose so brilliantly now sets. The cyclical imagery of hot and cold reminds that Progress is only one phase of a larger revolution. What advances must also recede; what blazes must also dim.
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