乾 → 大畜
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
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.
Trigram Changes
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
Commentary
Three rams compete for a female, chasing each other in frantic circles, forgetting to eat all day until their vitality is exhausted. From Creative to Great Taming, heaven is stored within the mountain — the image of accumulated power held in check. Yet these rams squander their energy in rivalry rather than storing it. Da Chu counsels learning from the words and deeds of antiquity to nourish virtue, but the rams have abandoned nourishment entirely for pointless contest. The mountain that should contain heaven's strength instead witnesses its dissipation. When competitive drive overwhelms the discipline of accumulation, even the strongest constitution grinds itself down to nothing.
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