泰 → 大畜
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).
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
生長以時，長育根本；陰陽和德，歲樂無憂。
Growing in season, nurturing root and stem. Yin and yang blend their virtue; the year is joyful and free of care.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's nurturing rhythm expands into storage. All things grow according to their season, roots deepen and stems strengthen. Yin and yang harmonize their virtue, and the year passes in joyful sufficiency without worry. This is the agrarian ideal: cultivation in its proper time, foundation before fruition, the whole cycle completing itself without disruption. From Peace to Great Taming, heaven is stored within the mountain — the gentleman studies the words and deeds of the ancients to accumulate virtue. The transformation shows Peace's generative energy gathered and preserved: seasonal abundance is not consumed but stored, becoming the wisdom that sustains through leaner times.
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