大畜 → 晉
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).
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.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
飲酒醉酗，跳起爭鬭。伯傷叔僵，東家治喪。
Drinking wine in drunken rage, they leap up and brawl. The elder is wounded, the younger laid stiff; next door the household mourns.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain yields to fire rising from the earth — Progress. Men drink until they are roaring drunk, then leap up and brawl. The elder brother is wounded; the younger collapses. Next door, a funeral is being held. The verse is a domestic disaster — accumulated revelry spilling over into violence, with death waiting just across the wall. Progress (fire above earth) shows brightness emerging from darkness, but here the emerging 'brightness' is the ugly glare of a drunken fight. From Great Taming to Progress, the mountain's stored heaven becomes fire breaking through earth's surface. What was patiently accumulated is squandered in a single night of excess. The morning light reveals only casualties.
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