頤 → 大畜
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
說以內安，不離其國。室家相懽，幽囚重閉。疾病多求，罪亂憒憒。
Content within, finding inner peace; not departing from one domain. The household shares in joy; yet the confined sit in heavy darkness. Illness demands much remedy; guilt and chaos, turmoil upon turmoil.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder, the jaws of nourishment, turns inward to mountain over heaven — Great Taming, where heaven is stored within the mountain. Contentment and inner peace keep one within the homeland; the household rejoices together. Then the verse darkens: imprisonment behind locked doors, illness demanding constant remedies, guilt and chaos in confusion. The two halves mirror Nourishment's dual nature — what sustains can also confine. From Nourishment to Great Taming, the mountain doubles its containment: heaven stored within should be noble accumulation, but here it becomes claustrophobic. Taming power requires knowing when storage becomes imprisonment and when nourishment becomes obsessive grasping.
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