Yarrow / Source Notes / 2026-07-17
Yarrow paired source note · 2026-07-17
Compare Hexagram 7 Shi (The Army) with Hexagram 13 Tong Ren (Fellowship) as a line-by-line opposite pair, without turning contrast into prediction.
THE ARMY. The host. The divination concerning the marching of troops shows that when a worthy elder commands the army, there is good fortune and no blame.
The hexagram Shi, with Kun above and Kan below, symbolizes a single yang line as elder leading a multitude on campaign.
Fellowship with men in the open country. Success. It furthers one to cross the great water. It furthers the perseverance of the superior man. The Commentary on the Decision says: In Fellowship with Men, the yielding finds its place and the central position, and responds to the Creative. Therefore it is called Fellowship with Men. The judgment says: "Fellowship with men in the open. Success. It furthers one to cross the great water." This is the action of the Creative.
In the hexagram Tongren, the second line wholeheartedly responds upward to the fifth line—this is what is meant by "that which is rooted in Heaven draws close to what...
The local structured corpus records Hexagram 7's opposite as Hexagram 13, and Hexagram 13's opposite as Hexagram 7. Every line changes polarity across this pair. Use that structural fact to compare conditions, not to label one side good and the other bad.
Make two columns headed Shi and Tong Ren. Under each, copy one phrase from its reference translation and one observable condition from the situation you are studying. Circle the condition that would have to change before the other column became more relevant. Choose one reversible step and a review date.
An opposite pair is not a before-and-after promise. Shi does not automatically become Tong Ren, and the pair does not decide which person or outcome is correct. It is a disciplined contrast for closer observation.
The two reference translations and context notes come from Yarrow's bundled structured Zhouyi authority layer. The opposite-pair relation comes from the same local corpus. This comparison is not a fresh cast or a forecast.