大畜 → 比
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 8: Holding Together
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5, 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 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 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
三塗五岳，去危入室。凶禍不作，桀盜堯服。失其寵福，貴人有疾。
Through the three passes and the five peaks, leaving peril and entering shelter. Calamity does not arise; Jie plunders but Yao dons the robes. He loses his favored blessing; the noble one falls ill.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain yields to water upon earth — Holding Together. Traversing the Three Tu passes and the Five Sacred Mountains, one leaves danger behind and enters the safety of home. Calamity ceases; yet the verse adds a startling reversal: 'Jie the tyrant steals Yao's robes' — the wicked usurp the trappings of the virtuous. Favor and fortune are lost, and the noble fall ill. The Three Tu refers to three strategic passes in the Xiaoshan mountains, historically treacherous terrain. From Great Taming to Holding Together, the mountain's reserves should create alliance and security. But when tyrants dress in sage-kings' garments, the bonds of trust are poisoned, and even safe homecoming cannot prevent the corruption within.
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