大畜 → 隨
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 17: Following
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
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.
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
嫗妬公姥，毀益亂賴。使我家憒，利得不遂。
The wife resents the mother-in-law; slander and spite throw all into disorder. She makes our household a shambles; gain and profit cannot be had.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain becomes the lake with thunder within — Following. A jealous daughter-in-law clashes with her mother-in-law, sowing discord and confusion that unsettles the entire household. Ambitions are thwarted and gains cannot be realized. Great Taming's accumulated domestic reserves are poisoned by internal friction. The lake containing thunder suggests suppressed energy seeking an outlet through the wrong channels. From Great Taming to Following, what should be orderly succession — the young following the old — instead becomes bitter jealousy disrupting the chain of authority. The verse warns that accumulated household wealth means nothing when domestic relationships are corroded by spite. True following requires deference, not rivalry.
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