頤 → 臨
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 19: Approach
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 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 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
大斧破木，讒人敗國。東關二五，禍及三子。晉人亂危，懷公出走。
A great axe splits the timber; slanderers destroy the state. The two-five of the Eastern Pass bring calamity upon three princes. The state of Jin falls to chaos; Duke Huai flees in exile.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder transforms into earth over lake — the great Approach of authority. A great axe splits the wood; slanderers destroy the state. The 'Two Fives' at the Eastern Gate — Lady Li's agents Liang Wu and Dongguan Wu — conspired to slander Crown Prince Shensheng and the princes Chong Er and Yiwu. According to the Zuo Zhuan, Lady Li bribed these officials to persuade Duke Xian to exile his sons to frontier posts, then framed Shensheng with poisoned sacrificial meat. The prince hanged himself; his brothers fled. Duke Huai of Jin later lost the throne and was killed. From Nourishment to Approach, the transformation is ominous: authority approaching from below can nourish or destroy, and when slander poisons the source, even royal sons are split like kindling.
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