大畜 → 否
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 有厲。利已。
Nine at the beginning means: Danger is at hand. It furthers one to desist.
Line 2
九二 輿說輹。
Nine in the second place means: The axletrees are taken from the wagon.
Line 3
九三 良馬逐。利艱貞。曰閑輿衛。利有攸往。
Nine in the third place means. A good horse that follows others. Awareness of danger, With perseverance, furthers. Practice chariot driving and armed defense daily. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
Line 4
六四 童牛之牿。元吉。
Six in the fourth place means: The headboard of a young bull. Great good fortune.
Line 5
六五 豶豕之牙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The tusk of a gelded boar. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
麟鳳執獲，陰雄失職。自衛反魯，猥昧不起。祿福訖已。
Qilin and phoenix are seized and captured; the male hero loses his office. From Wei he returns to Lu; humbled and dim, he does not rise again. Rank and blessing come to their end.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain gives way to heaven above earth in Standstill — heaven and earth refuse to mingle. The qilin and phoenix are captured, and the yin-heroic lose their posts. 'From Wei he returned to Lu' echoes Confucius's own journey, returning home after years of frustrated wandering only to find the world no better. Blessings and prosperity come to an end. The capture of the qilin — the auspicious creature that appears only under sage rule — in a degenerate age signals the exhaustion of moral order. From Great Taming to Standstill, the mountain's stored heaven separates into heaven rising and earth sinking, communication severed. What was accumulated cannot be spent; what was stored finds no outlet.
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