小畜

Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 9: Small Taming

Treading
Heaven / Lake
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven WindThe Creative → The Gentle
Lower TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative

Yilin Verse

郭叔距頤,為棘所拘;龍額重顙。禍不成殃,復歸其鄉。

Guo Shu propping up his chin, held fast by thorns. Dragon brow and heavy forehead. The disaster does not become calamity; he returns again to his homeland.

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

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