大畜 → 漸
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 53: Development
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
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 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
桀紂之主，悖不可輔。貪榮為人，必定其咎。聚鈠積實，野在鄙邑，未得入室。
Rulers like Jie and Zhou, perverse and beyond help. Greedy for glory and serving others, one is certain to incur blame. Hoarding coin and piling goods, stranded in the remote outskirts; he has not gained entry to the chamber.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain rises as wind above the mountain — Development. With rulers like Jie and Zhou, perverse and impossible to serve, those who cling to honor for personal gain will surely bring blame upon themselves. Wealth may be accumulated and goods piled high, but it all remains out in the wilds and rustic hamlets, unable to enter the inner chambers of power. The tyrants Jie and Zhou are the archetypal bad kings — under such masters, accumulated talent and resources find no legitimate outlet. From Great Taming to Development, the mountain's stored heaven should grow gradually upward like a tree on a mountainside. But when the ruler is corrupt, gradual development is impossible; the worthy scholar remains stranded in the hinterland, his accumulated learning locked outside the gates.
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