大過 → 隨
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 17: Following
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Line 1
初六 藉用白茅。无咎。
Six at the beginning means: To spread white rushes underneath. No blame.
Line 2
九二 枯楊生稊。老夫得其女妻。无不利。
Nine in the second place means: A dry poplar sprouts at the root. An older man takes a young wife. Everything furthers.
Line 3
九三 棟橈。凶。
Nine in the third place means: The ridgepole sags to the breaking point. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
瀺瀺浞浞，塗泥至轂。馬濘不進，虎囓我足。
Dripping, splashing, soaking through; mud rises to the axle hubs. The horse is mired and cannot advance; the tiger gnaws upon my foot.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind plunges into lake above thunder — Following, where one adapts to changing currents. Rain pours ceaselessly, mud rises to the wheel hubs, the horse mires and cannot advance, and a tiger gnaws at one's foot. The verse is pure entrapment: every element conspires to halt forward movement. Water above and below, mud swallowing the wheels, a predator attacking from the ground — this is the traveler caught in terrain that will not release him. From Great Exceeding to Following, the sagging beam collapses into the swamp. Following demands adaptation, but the mud offers no foothold for adaptive movement. The tiger at the foot completes the trap: even standing still invites attack. Sometimes the only way to follow is to accept that the road itself has become the enemy.
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