中孚 → 需
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 5: Waiting
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
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 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
折若蔽目，不見稚叔。失旅亡民，遠去家室。
Branches like blindfolds block the eyes; I cannot see my young kin. Losing travelers and people; I journey far from home.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, but vision is blocked. Branches snap and blind the eyes; one cannot see one's own kin. Travelers scatter, the people are lost, and all wander far from home. The imagery progresses from physical obstruction to social dissolution — first the eyes are covered, then families fracture, then entire communities disperse. From Inner Truth to Waiting, the lake's clarity gives way to water looming above heaven, danger suspended overhead. When sincerity is blinded, trust collapses, and separation follows. Waiting here is not patient anticipation but enforced exile — stranded beneath gathering clouds with no shelter in sight, unable to recognize who stands beside you in the dark.
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