大畜 → 臨
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 19: Approach
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
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 6
上九 何天之衢。亨。
Nine at the top means: One attains the way of heaven. Success.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
崔嵬北岳，天神貴客。溫仁正直，主布恩德。閔哀不已，蒙受大福。
Lofty and towering, the Northern Peak; heaven's spirits are honored guests. Warm, benevolent, upright, and just, the lord bestows grace and virtue. Grieving ceaselessly in compassion, he receives great blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain gives way to earth above the lake — Approach. The towering northern peak stands like a sacred host; heavenly spirits arrive as honored guests. Warm benevolence and upright integrity spread blessings and virtue. Compassion never ceases, and great fortune follows. The lofty mountain evokes the Northern Sacred Peak, one of the Five Sacred Mountains, where heaven and earth converge. The divine visitors are drawn by accumulated virtue. From Great Taming to Approach, the mountain's stored heaven becomes the lake's rising water pressing upward toward earth — the approach of benevolent authority. What was stored now descends as grace, and those who cultivated compassion during the taming receive heaven's abundant blessing.
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