大畜

Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 26: Great Taming

The Creative
Heaven / Heaven
大畜
Great Taming
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven Heaven

Yilin Verse

三羊爭雌,相逐奔馳,終日不食,精氣勞疲。

Three rams vie for the ewe, chasing one another in a gallop. All day without eating, their vitality is spent in exhaustion.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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