大畜 → 屯
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 3: Difficulty at the Beginning
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 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
水暴橫行，緣屋壞墻。泱泱溢溢，市師驚惶。居止不殆，與母相保。
Floodwater surges unchecked, climbing eaves and breaking walls. Vast and overflowing; the marketplace is seized with panic. Stay still and do not venture out; shelter with mother and hold fast.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain gives way to cloud and thunder — the gathering storm of Difficulty at the Beginning. Floodwaters rage unchecked, climbing the eaves and smashing through walls. The deluge overflows in every direction; the marketplace empties as people flee in terror. Yet the verse resolves: those who stay put are not harmed, and mother and child protect each other. Great Taming's accumulated reserves meet the primal chaos of Hexagram 3, where water above thunder signals violent birth pangs. The flood is the eruption of stored energy into an unprepared world. From Great Taming to Difficulty at the Beginning, the message is plain: when accumulated force breaks free without order, it devastates — but those who hold still and cling to what matters survive the torrent.
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