大畜

Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 10: Treading

大畜
Great Taming
Mountain / Heaven
Treading
Heaven / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

三手六身,莫適所閑。更相搖動,失事便安。箕子佯狂,國乃不昌。

Three hands and six bodies, with no place to rest at ease. Shaking and jostling one another; losing one's footing brings sudden peace. Jizi feigned madness; the state would never prosper.

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

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