大畜

Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 26: Great Taming

Standstill
Heaven / Earth
大畜
Great Taming
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven MountainThe Creative → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative

Yilin Verse

行役未已,新事復起;姬姜勞苦,不得休息。

The millstone has turned ten thousand times; flour covers the floor but no one has slept. One load is not yet set down before another is shouldered — a few white hairs appear by the pillow.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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