頤 → 大過
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 6 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初九 舍爾靈龜。觀我朶頤。凶。
Nine at the beginning means: You let your magic tortoise go, And look at me with the corners of your mouth drooping. Misfortune.
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 4
六四 顛頤。吉。虎視眈眈。其欲逐逐。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Turning to the summit For provision of nourishment Brings good fortune. Spying about with sharp eyes Like a tiger with insatiable craving. No blame.
Line 5
六五 拂經。居貞吉。不可涉大川。
Six in the fifth place means: Turning away from the path. To remain persevering brings good fortune. One should not cross the great water.
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
六龍俱怒，戰於阪下。倉黃不勝，旅人難苦。
Six dragons rage together; they battle at the foot of the slope. In haste they cannot prevail; the traveler suffers hardship and distress.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder erupts into lake over wind — Great Exceeding, the ridgepole strained past its limit. Six dragons rage together, battling at the foot of the slope. In panicked haste they cannot prevail, and the traveler suffers bitterly. The six dragons recall the Qian hexagram's six yang lines, but here they fight rather than create, their energy turned destructive. The slope becomes a battlefield rather than a path of ascent. From Nourishment to Great Exceeding, the transformation overloads: what was carefully measured nourishment bursts its container. The lake submerges the wind's trees, and power that should sustain instead overwhelms. The traveler caught in this excess has no shelter.
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