大畜 → 訟
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初九 有厲。利已。
Nine at the beginning means: Danger is at hand. It furthers one to desist.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
江淮易服，玄黃朱飾。靈公夏徵，哀相無極。高位崩顛，失其寵室。
Rivers and lakes change their dress; black and yellow adorned in vermillion. Duke Ling levied taxes in summer; the sorrowful minister's grief knows no end. The high seat collapses and topples; he loses his favored chambers.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain gives way to heaven and water moving in opposition — Conflict. The Yangtze and Huai rivers change their garments: black and yellow give way to vermilion adornment, an image of natural order inverted. Duke Ling levies taxes in summer, bringing grief without end. Those in high places tumble from their pinnacle and lose their favored chambers. The verse evokes a ruler who exhausts the realm through improper exactions, reversing the seasonal rhythms that sustain prosperity. From Great Taming to Conflict, the mountain's stored heaven splits into heaven above and water below flowing in opposite directions — the classic image of irreconcilable dispute. Accumulated resources, once mismanaged, become the very cause of contention and collapse.
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