泰 → 小畜
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 9: Small Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
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
久客無床，思歸我鄉；雷雨涌盈，道不得通。
Long a guest with no bed, longing to return home. Thunder and rain swell and surge; the road cannot be traveled.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace inverted into displacement. A traveler stranded far from home has no proper bed, longing ceaselessly for his native village. Thunder and rain surge and overflow, flooding the roads until no passage remains. The verse captures the exile's double bind: homesickness intensifies precisely when return becomes impossible. Storms block every path home. From Peace to Small Taming, wind blows across heaven — a gentle force attempting to restrain vast energy but not yet succeeding. The rain clouds gather but have not released their burden. The transformation mirrors the traveler's predicament: desire is present, the way is imagined, but circumstances have not yet yielded the opening.
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