大過 → 大畜
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
車馬病傷，不利越鄉。幽人元亨，去晦就明。
Cart and horse sick and broken; crossing the border brings no gain. The recluse finds fundamental success; leaving darkness, he enters the light.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind transforms into mountain above heaven — Great Taming, where the mountain stores heaven's power. Horses and carts are ailing and injured; crossing the border is not favorable. But the recluse finds fundamental success, leaving darkness to enter the light. The verse splits into two fates: the traveler's broken vehicle cannot make the journey, while the hermit who stays put achieves clarity. 'Leaving darkness for light' echoes the I-Ching's own language for the recluse's inner transformation. From Great Exceeding to Great Taming, the collapsing beam is caught and held by the mountain. What could not be sustained as forward movement becomes stored potential. The recluse succeeds precisely by refusing to push the broken cart further — stopping, accumulating, and letting the mountain gather what excess had scattered.
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