大畜 → 小過
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).
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 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 6
上九 何天之衢。亨。
Nine at the top means: One attains the way of heaven. Success.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
同載共車，中道別去。爵級不進，君子不興。
Sharing a cart, riding together; midway they part and go. Rank and office do not advance; the noble man does not prosper.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain becomes thunder above the mountain — Small Exceeding. Companions share the same carriage, then part ways midroute. Rank and title do not advance; the gentleman does not prosper. The verse traces a friendship or alliance that begins with shared purpose (riding together) but fails to endure (separating midjourney). Neither party achieves advancement. Small Exceeding warns about overstepping in small matters — thunder rumbling above the mountain, an excess that is minor but persistent. From Great Taming to Small Exceeding, the mountain's stored heaven becomes a small tremor atop the mountain itself — the accumulated reserves produce only a minor disturbance. Partnerships formed from stored capital dissolve when the excess is too small to sustain shared ambition.
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