中孚 → 睽
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
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
懸貆素餐，食非其任。失轝剝廬，休坐徙居。
Badger hanging, eating unearned pay; fed beyond one's merit. Losing carriage and stripped of house; resting and relocating.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, but the badger feeds without earning its keep — a parasite dining on undeserved rations. Then the carriage is lost, the hut is stripped bare, and one must sit idle and relocate. The 'suspended badger eating unearned meals' (懸貆素餐) evokes the idiom for officials who draw salary without contributing. The consequence is total dispossession: transport gone, shelter demolished, forced to move. From Inner Truth to Opposition, sincerity meets fire above the lake — forces that move in contrary directions. The verse embodies Opposition's dynamic: when one consumes without contributing, the system eventually rejects the parasite. Fire rises while the lake sinks; what cannot coexist must separate.
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