乾 → 泰
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
Line 4
九四 或躍在淵。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Wavering flight over the depths. No blame.
Line 5
九五 飛龍在天。利見大人。
Nine in the fifth place means: Flying dragon in the heavens. It furthers one to see the great man.
Line 6
上九 亢龍有悔。
Nine at the top means: Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
不風不雨，白日皎皎。宜出驅馳，通理大道。
No wind, no rain; the white sun shines bright. Fit to ride forth and gallop; the great road runs clear.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Neither wind nor rain — the white sun shines brilliantly. Go forth, drive your chariot, and take the great road unimpeded. From Creative to Peace, heaven and earth exchange places: heaven descends, earth ascends, and their energies mingle freely. Tai is the hexagram of open passage, of spring when all gates stand wide. The verse distills this into pure clarity: no storm, no obstruction, just radiant daylight and an open highway. When heaven's creative force flows downward to meet earth's receptive support rising upward, the result is a world without blockage. The chariot races forward because the road and the sky conspire to let it through.
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