中孚 → 家人
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
六蛇奔走，俱入茂草。驚於長塗，畏懼啄口。
Six snakes flee running; all entering thick grass. Startled on the long road; fearing pecking beaks.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, but six snakes flee in panic, plunging together into dense grass. Startled on the long road, they fear the pecking beak. The sudden flight of six serpents suggests a household or retinue scattering in terror, perhaps driven by a predatory bird overhead. The number six may echo the six children of Qian and Kun, here dispersed rather than united. From Inner Truth to the Family, sincerity should yield to wind emerging from fire — warmth radiating as gentle household influence. Yet the verse inverts the Family's promise: instead of orderly domestic harmony, the household scatters in disarray, each member fleeing into the wild, hunted rather than sheltered.
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