蠱 → 大畜
Hexagram 18: Work on the Decayed → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 1).
Line 1
初六 幹父之蠱。有子。考无咎。厲終吉。
Six in the beginning means: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. If there is a son, No blame rests upon the departed father. Danger. In the end good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
雲雷因積，大雨重疊；久不見日，使心悒悒。
Clouds and thunder pile and gather; heavy rain falls again and again. Long without sight of the sun -- it makes the heart heavy.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath the mountain meets heaven stored within the mountain — Great Taming's capacity for accumulation. Clouds and thunder pile up; heavy rains layer upon themselves. The sun remains hidden for so long that the heart grows restless and oppressed. The verse presents accumulation turned oppressive: what should be gathered strength has instead become unrelieved pressure. Rain upon rain, cloud upon cloud, with no clearing in sight. From Work on the Decayed to Great Taming, the lesson is that accumulation without release becomes its own form of decay. The mountain restraining heaven must eventually let the tamed energy flow, or the very act of storing becomes suffocation.
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