頤 → 小畜
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 9: Small Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 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 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
六翮長翼，夜過射國。高飛冥冥，羿氏無得。
Six flight feathers, long wings; passing over the land of archers by night. Soaring high into the boundless dark; the archer Yi cannot catch it.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder shifts to wind above heaven, the gentle restraint of Small Taming. A bird with six strong pinions and long wings flies through the night, passing over the land of the archer. Soaring high into the darkness, even Archer Yi cannot bring it down. Yi, the divine bowman who shot nine suns from the sky, represents the ultimate predatory force, yet this bird's flight is too high and too swift. From Nourishment to Small Taming, the transformation captures how well-nourished strength, once airborne, eludes even supreme power. The wind above heaven gently accumulates what brute force cannot seize. What is properly nourished rises beyond the reach of violence.
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