頤 → 中孚
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
熊羆豺狼，在山陰陽。伺鹿取獐，道候畏難。
Bears and grizzlies, jackals and wolves; on the mountain bright and shadowed slopes. Stalking deer, seizing roe; they watch the road, wary of danger.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder transforms into wind over lake — Inner Truth, where sincerity reaches across the void. Bears, wolves, and jackals prowl the mountain's shaded slopes and sunny ridges. They stalk deer and hunt roe, yet the road is perilous, and the watcher hesitates before the difficulty. The mountain that nourishes also harbors predators; the same terrain that feeds the deer feeds those who hunt it. From Nourishment to Inner Truth, the transformation deepens: beyond the surface of nourishment lies the question of what is genuinely true. The predators on the mountain test whether one's sincerity can hold amid real danger. Inner Truth's wind over lake reaches even the fish in the deep, but first one must navigate the wolves at the gate.
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