泰 → 歸妹
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
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 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
逐鹿山巔，利去我西；維邪南北，無所不得。
Chasing the deer up the mountain ridge; profit departs to our west. Branching out to south and north; there is nothing we do not gain.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace casts its net wide. Chasing deer across the mountain peak, profit lies to the west. But veering south and north in every direction, there is nothing one cannot obtain. The hunt becomes omnidirectional — not a focused pursuit but a radiating expansion where game is plentiful in all quarters. The mountaintop vantage gives the hunter command of every direction. From Peace to the Marrying Maiden, thunder rolls above the lake, and the gentleman understands endings through their flaws. The transformation introduces a caution: expansive acquisition must end somewhere, and the marrying maiden's position is inherently subordinate. Boundless ambition eventually meets the limit of propriety.
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