大畜 → 豫
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 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 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 6
上九 何天之衢。亨。
Nine at the top means: One attains the way of heaven. Success.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
道禮和德，仁不相賊。君子往之，樂有其利。
The Way, ritual, harmony, and virtue; benevolence does not harm. The noble man goes forth in this; he delights in its rewards.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain erupts as thunder from the earth — Enthusiasm. The way of ritual harmonizes with virtue; benevolence prevails and none do harm to one another. The gentleman proceeds toward this and finds joy and profit together. Great Taming's patient accumulation meets Enthusiasm's exuberant release: thunder bursting from the ground is stored energy finally finding expression. The verse presents the ideal outcome of long cultivation: when virtue, ritual, and benevolence have been thoroughly internalized, their expression brings spontaneous delight. From Great Taming to Enthusiasm, the mountain's stored heaven becomes thunder shaking the earth — the great release that comes when accumulated wisdom finally moves the world.
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