大畜 → 家人
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Line 2
九二 輿說輹。
Nine in the second place means: The axletrees are taken from the wagon.
Line 5
六五 豶豕之牙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The tusk of a gelded boar. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
爭訟不已，更相咨詢。張事弱口，被髮北走。耳順從心，躬行至仁。不須以兵，天下太平。
Disputes go on without end; they consult one another in turn. Exaggerating the case with feeble words, hair unbound, they flee northward. When ears obey and heart follows, the body practices perfect benevolence. No need to resort to arms; all under heaven is at peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain preserves the wisdom of ages. Lawsuits multiply and disputants consult one another endlessly, voices raised and arguments strained, until some flee in disheveled panic. Then the verse pivots to Confucius's autobiography from the Analects, Weizheng chapter: 'At sixty my ear was attuned; at seventy I followed my heart's desire without overstepping.' The sage governs through practiced virtue, not through force. No armies are needed; the world finds peace of its own accord. Wind emerging from fire, the image of The Family, suggests that warmth within radiates outward as gentle influence. From Great Taming to The Family, the transformation reveals that true order in the household and the state comes not from accumulated power but from internalized moral cultivation.
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