大畜 → 益
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 42: Increase
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天女推床，不成文章。南箕無舌，飯多沙糖。虛象盜名，雄雞折頸。
The Heavenly Maiden pushes aside her loom; the pattern does not form. The Southern Winnower has no tongue; the rice is mixed with sand and chaff. False image, stolen name; the rooster's neck is wrung.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain rises as wind and thunder — Increase. The Weaving Maid star pushes at her loom, but no proper fabric is produced. The Southern Dipper has no tongue, yet rice is mixed with sugar and sand. False images steal reputations, and the rooster that crows in vain has its neck wrung. The verse is a catalog of celestial and earthly deception: stars that bear names of useful functions but deliver nothing, counterfeits that claim substance but offer only grit. From Great Taming to Increase, the mountain's stored heaven should generate genuine growth. But this verse warns that false increase — gain built on deception, reputation without substance — ultimately collapses. The rooster's broken neck is the fate of every impostor.
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