小畜 → 同人
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
Line 2
九二 牽復。吉。
Nine in the second place means: He allows himself to be drawn into returning. Good fortune.
Line 4
六四 有孚。血去惕出。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: If you are sincere, blood vanishes and fear gives way. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
日走月步，趣不同舍；夫妻反目，主君失居。
The sun runs, the moon walks; they rush to different lodgings. Husband and wife turn against each other; the ruling lord loses his home.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven meets heaven joined with fire — the promise of fellowship. Yet sun and moon race at different speeds, never sharing the same lodging. Husband and wife turn against each other; the lord loses his dwelling. From Small Taming to Fellowship, the verse inverts its target hexagram. Tong Ren's image is heaven and fire moving together, their natures aligned. But here celestial bodies diverge, the intimate bond fractures, and the ruler is displaced. When those who should move in concert fall out of rhythm, fellowship collapses into estrangement. The sun and moon are always in the same sky but never in the same place — proximity without harmony is the cruelest form of separation.
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