大畜 → 兌
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
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.
Line 5
六五 豶豕之牙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The tusk of a gelded boar. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 何天之衢。亨。
Nine at the top means: One attains the way of heaven. Success.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鴻盜我襦，逃於山隅。不見武迹，使伯心憂。
The wild goose stole my coat; it fled to the mountain's edge. Its tracks of valor are nowhere found; the elder brother's heart is filled with worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain opens onto doubled lake — the Joyous. A wild goose steals my jacket and flees to the mountain's edge. No martial trace can be found; the elder brother's heart is filled with worry. The goose — a messenger bird in classical imagery — has absconded with something personal and disappeared into the wilderness. The pursuit yields nothing; the one responsible for finding it (the 'elder brother') is left anxious and helpless. From Great Taming to the Joyous, the mountain's stored heaven becomes the open exchange of twin lakes. But joy here is elusive: what was stored has been stolen, the thief has vanished into the very mountain that should have safeguarded it. The Joyous demands mutual delight; this verse finds only loss and bewilderment.
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