頤 → 泰
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
六二 顛頤。拂經于丘。頤征凶。
Six in the second place means: Turning to the summit for nourishment, Deviating from the path To seek nourishment from the hill. Continuing to do this brings misfortune.
Line 3
六三 拂頤。貞凶。十年勿用。无攸利。
Six in the third place means: Turning away from nourishment. Perseverance brings misfortune. Do not act thus for ten years. Nothing serves to further.
Line 6
上九 由頤。厲吉。利涉大川。
Nine at the top means: The source of nourishment. Awareness of danger brings good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
放狐乘龍，為王道東。過時不及，使我憂聾。
A released fox rides a dragon, conducting the king way eastward. Missing the time, arriving too late; leaving us anxious and deaf to counsel.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder transforms into earth over heaven, the interchange of Peace. A fox is released to ride the dragon, conducting the king's affairs eastward, but the timing slips — too late, never quite arriving — leaving one deaf with worry. The fox, cunning but lowly, mounted upon the dragon, symbol of sovereign power, suggests an unworthy agent entrusted with a royal mission. The window of opportunity passes. From Nourishment to Peace, the transformation reveals how the free exchange between above and below can miscarry when the wrong messenger carries the nourishment. Even in an era of cosmic harmony, mismatched agents spoil the delivery.
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