師 → 蠱
Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
Line 3
六三 師或輿尸。凶。
Six in the third place means: Perchance the army carries corpses in the wagon. Misfortune.
Line 6
上六 大君有命。開國承家。小人勿用。
Six at the top means: The great prince issues commands, Founds states, vests families with fiefs. Inferior people should not be employed.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
精潔淵塞，為讒所言。證訊詰請，繫於枳溫。甘棠聽斷，怡然蒙恩。
Pure and upright, yet dammed and blocked; slandered by false tongues. Interrogated and questioned; bound at Zhiwen. Under the sweet pear tree, judgment is heard; peacefully, grace is received.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water hidden within the earth protects the innocent, but here a pure and blameless person falls victim to slander. Interrogated and cross-examined, bound and imprisoned at Zhiwen — the injustice is complete. Then the verse pivots to rescue: under the sweet pear tree, a wise judge hears the case, and the falsely accused receives grace with serene joy. The sweet pear tree alludes to the Shijing ode about the Duke of Shao, who dispensed justice under a gan-tang tree so beloved that the people refused to cut it after his death. From The Army to Work on the Decayed, wind beneath the mountain stirs what has stagnated. Corrupt institutions can be repaired when a just authority intervenes.
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