泰 → 賁
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).
Line 2
九二 包荒。用馮河。不遐遺。朋亡。得尚于中行。
Nine in the second place means: Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness, Fording the river with resolution, Not neglecting what is distant, Not regarding one's companions: Thus one may manage to walk in the middle.
Line 6
上六 城復于隍。勿用師。自邑告命。貞吝。
Six at the top means: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
夏麥麩䵃，霜擊其芒；疾君敗國，使民夭傷。
Summer wheat in husk and bran, frost strikes its awns. A sickly lord ruins the state, causing the people to suffer and die young.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's harvest destroyed by untimely frost. Summer wheat has formed its bran and husks, but frost strikes the grain tips before they can ripen. A tyrannical lord ruins the state, causing the people to die young and suffer injury. The frost-blighted wheat is a precise agricultural metaphor: the plant has done its work, grain has formed, yet at the critical moment a late frost kills what should have flourished. Unjust governance operates identically — destroying potential just as it approaches maturity. From Peace to Grace, fire beneath the mountain illuminates the surface. The transformation warns that decorative brilliance cannot compensate for a destroyed foundation.
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