泰 → 艮
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).
Line 1
初九 拔茅茹。以其彙。征吉。
Nine at the beginning means: When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Undertakings bring good fortune.
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
妄怒失理，陽孤無輔；物病焦枯，年飢於黍。
Reckless anger defies all reason; yang stands isolated without aid. All things sicken, scorched and withered; the year's harvest starves for millet.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace consumed by irrational fury. Senseless rage abandons all principle; the yang force stands isolated without support. Plants wither and burn, and the year's grain crop fails — famine in the millet fields. Anger, once disconnected from reason, becomes a drought that destroys everything within its domain. The solitary yang, unsupported by yin, cannot sustain life; it can only scorch. From Peace to Keeping Still, twin mountains stand in silence, and the gentleman's thoughts do not stray beyond his station. The transformation prescribes the remedy: when rage has burned away all reason, only stillness can arrest the destruction. The mountain does not argue; it simply stops.
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