大過 → 賁
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).
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 4
九四 棟隆。吉。有它吝。
Nine in the fourth place means: The ridgepole is braced. Good fortune. If there are ulterior motives, it is humiliating.
Line 5
九五 枯楊生華。老婦得其士夫。无咎无譽。
Nine in the fifth place means: A withered poplar puts forth flowers. An older woman takes a husband. No blame. No praise.
Line 6
上六 過涉滅頂。凶。无咎。
Six at the top means: One must go through the water. It goes over one's head. Misfortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
嬰孩求乳，母歸其子，黃麑懽喜。
The infant seeks the breast; the mother returns to her child. The yellow fawn rejoices.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind softens into mountain above fire — Grace, where beauty adorns substance. An infant cries for milk; the mother returns to her child, and the young fawn leaps with joy. The verse is tender and elemental: hunger, reunion, and the simple happiness of nourishment received. The yellow fawn (黃麑) suggests innocence and natural delight — a creature that rejoices without calculation. Grace's image is fire glowing at the foot of the mountain, illuminating without consuming. From Great Exceeding to Grace, the overburdened structure dissolves into warmth and adornment. What was crushing weight becomes the gentle light that reveals the beauty of the most basic human bond — a mother nursing her child, the fawn bounding in uncomplicated joy.
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