泰 → 漸
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 53: Development
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 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 5
六五 帝乙歸妹。以祉元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The sovereign I Gives his daughter in marriage. This brings blessing And supreme good fortune.
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
倬然遠咎，避患害早；田獲三狐，見民為寶。
Standing tall and far from blame, avoiding misfortune early. Hunting, one captures three foxes; seeing the people as treasure.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace maintained through early vigilance. Standing conspicuously upright, one avoids calamity from afar, recognizing danger before it materializes. Hunting in the fields, one catches three foxes — symbols of cunning threats neutralized. The people are revealed as the true treasure. The verse celebrates preemptive wisdom: the person who acts before trouble ripens reaps security. 'Catching three foxes' echoes the I-Ching's own Deliverance hexagram (line nine-two), where foxes represent entrenched problems eliminated. From Peace to Development, trees grow upon the mountain gradually. The transformation shows that early prevention creates the conditions for slow, organic growth — danger cleared away, the tree rises at its natural pace.
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