大畜 → 頤
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
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
上天樓臺，登降受福，喜慶自來。
Ascending the heavenly tower and terrace; climbing up and down, receiving blessing. Joy and celebration come of their own accord.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain yields to the mountain with thunder below — Nourishment. Ascending the heavenly tower and terrace, one receives blessings on the way down. Joy and celebration arrive of their own accord. The imagery is vertical: climbing high and descending enriched, a circuit of spiritual nourishment. From Great Taming to Nourishment, the mountain's stored heaven becomes the mountain's sheltering stillness above thunder's vital energy below — the jaw opening and closing, taking in sustenance. The verse captures the simplicity of this transformation: accumulated effort climbs toward heaven, then returns as blessing. What goes up in devotion comes down as nourishment. The terrace stands as a bridge between stored virtue and daily sustenance.
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