大畜 → 謙
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 15: Modesty
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).
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 6
上九 何天之衢。亨。
Nine at the top means: One attains the way of heaven. Success.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
齊魯爭言，戰於龍門。遘怨致禍，三世不安。
Qi and Lu contend with words; they battle at Dragon Gate. Resentment breeds calamity; three generations know no peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain descends into earth above the mountain — Modesty. Qi and Lu quarrel bitterly, battling at Dragon Gate. Resentment breeds disaster that haunts three generations. Dragon Gate, the gorge on the Yellow River carved by Yu the Great, is a threshold of transformation — fish that leap it become dragons, but those who fight at its threshold merely destroy themselves. From Great Taming to Modesty, the mountain's stored heaven should humble itself as earth covers the mountain. Instead, two powerful states squander their accumulated strength in mutual grievance. The verse's warning spans three generations: accumulated resentment, unlike accumulated virtue, compounds into ruin. Modesty demands yielding; these states chose confrontation.
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