乾 → 大畜
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
䷀
乾
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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