大畜 → 巽
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Line 1
初九 有厲。利已。
Nine at the beginning means: Danger is at hand. It furthers one to desist.
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
載風雲母，遊觀東海。鼓翼千里，見吾愛子。
Riding the wind on cloud-mother wings, roaming above the Eastern Sea. Beating wings a thousand li; she catches sight of her beloved child.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain dissolves into doubled wind — the Gentle. Riding wind and cloud-mother, one tours the Eastern Sea. Wings beating for a thousand li, one finds the beloved child at last. The image is transcendent: a mythical flight across the sea, powered by wind and celestial vapor, culminating in reunion. 'Cloud-mother' (雲母) may evoke the mineral mica associated with Daoist immortality practices, or simply the clouds themselves as a maternal vehicle. From Great Taming to the Gentle, the mountain's stored heaven becomes pure wind — doubled, penetrating, going everywhere. What was stored heavily within the mountain now flies free across ten thousand li. The transformation is liberation: accumulated longing finds its object at the edge of the world.
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