大畜 → 剝
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
范子妙材，戮辱傷膚。然後相國，封為應侯。
Fierce fire tempers gold to a deeper red; cold iron endures a thousand hammer-blows to become a sharp blade. A body covered in scars — robes now changed; one morning, made chancellor, standing in the autumn wind.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain crumbles as the mountain rests upon earth — Splitting Apart. The original verse reads: 'Fan Ju, a man of marvelous talent, was humiliated and his body scarred. Afterward he became chief minister and was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Ying.' Fan Ju served the state of Wei until false accusations led to a savage beating — wrapped in a mat and thrown into a latrine. He escaped to Qin under a false name, rose through sheer brilliance to become Prime Minister, and was enfeoffed at Ying. From Great Taming to Splitting Apart, the mountain's stored heaven is the talent buried under layers of humiliation. Splitting Apart strips everything away — status, flesh, dignity — until only the bedrock of ability remains, ready to rebuild.
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