泰 → 頤
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 3
九三 无平不陂。无往不復。艱貞无咎。勿恤其孚。于食有福。
Nine in the third place means: No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger Is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
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
童女無夫，未有匹配；陰陽不和，空坐獨宿。
A young maiden without a husband, not yet matched with a mate. Yin and yang do not harmonize; she sits alone through empty nights.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace's communion produces no union at the personal level. A young woman has no husband and no proper match; yin and yang fail to harmonize, and she sits alone through empty nights. The cosmic forces that should bring complementary energies together have somehow failed at the human scale. The verse reads less as tragedy than as unfulfilled potential — a readiness that finds no corresponding partner. From Peace to Nourishment, the mountain stands above thunder — one must guard speech and moderate appetite. The transformation suggests that solitude, while painful, may become a form of self-cultivation: when the match does not come, one nourishes oneself.
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