師 → 晉
Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
九二 在師中吉。无咎。王三錫命。
Nine in the second place means: In the midst of the army. Good fortune. No blame. The king bestows a triple decoration.
Line 4
六四 師左次。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The army retreats. No blame.
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
依天倚地，凶危不至。上清下淨，受福大明，君受其利。
Relying on heaven, leaning on earth; danger and peril do not come. Above clear, below pure; receiving great and brilliant blessings -- the lord gains the advantage.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water hidden within the earth is backed by heaven and grounded in the land, and no danger dares approach. Leaning on heaven and resting on earth, above is clear and below is clean; one receives great illumination as blessing, and the ruler profits from this alignment. The verse describes perfect vertical integration: cosmic support flows from the highest to the lowest without obstruction. From The Army to Progress, fire rises above the earth as the sun at dawn. The army's hidden water gives way to ascending light — a commander whose clarity of purpose illuminates everything beneath. What was discipline becomes radiance; what was order becomes visible virtue shining outward.
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