大畜 → 睽
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
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
心志無良，傷破妄行。觸墻觝壁，不見戶房。先王閉關，商旅委棄。
The heart's purpose is unsound; recklessly injuring, blindly advancing. Striking walls, colliding with barriers; the doorway cannot be found. The former king shut the passes; merchants and travelers were cast aside.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain becomes fire above the lake — Opposition. The heart is set on reckless wandering without good purpose, crashing blindly into walls. No doorway or chamber can be found. The former kings closed the passes, and merchants were abandoned and forsaken. The verse is a portrait of disorientation: someone thrashing through a dark space, unable to find the exit, while the very authorities who should maintain order have sealed the gates. From Great Taming to Opposition, the mountain's stored heaven splits into fire above and lake below — elements that naturally diverge. The accumulated reserves of Great Taming become useless when inner confusion meets external closure. Opposition demands finding commonality within difference; this verse finds only collision.
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