師 → 泰
Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
Line 1
初六 師出以律。否臧凶。
Six at the beginning means: An army must set forth in proper order. If the order is not good, misfortune threatens.
Line 3
六三 師或輿尸。凶。
Six in the third place means: Perchance the army carries corpses in the wagon. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三人北行，六位光明。道逢淑女，與我驥子。
Three men journey north; the six positions are radiant. On the road they meet a virtuous woman; she gives me a fine steed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water hidden within the earth forms ranks, and three men march northward while six positions shine bright. On the road they meet a virtuous woman who presents them with a fine horse. The 'three men' may allude to the three great ministers of early Zhou — the Duke of Zhou, Duke of Shao, and Taigong — whose northward journey established Zhou governance. The six bright positions echo the hexagram's six lines fully illuminated. From The Army to Peace, earth and heaven exchange places in mutual communion. Military order blossoms into cosmic harmony: the woman's gift of a stallion signals that virtue, once properly deployed, draws abundance naturally toward it.
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