大畜

Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 12: Standstill

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

Changing Lines

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

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Lower TrigramHeaven EarthThe Creative → The Receptive

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

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