大過 → 艮
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
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
四蹇六盲，足痛難行。終日至暮，不離其鄉。
Four are lame, six are blind; feet ache, walking is hard. All day until dusk; they do not leave their village.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind stiffens into doubled mountain — Keeping Still, absolute cessation of movement. Four are lame and six are blind; feet ache and walking is impossible. From dawn to dusk, one never leaves one's village. The verse is the extreme of immobility: physical disability rendering all travel impossible, the world shrinking to the boundaries of one's own hamlet. Keeping Still's image — twin mountains — represents the decision not to move, but here the stillness is enforced rather than chosen. From Great Exceeding to Keeping Still, the collapsing beam freezes in place. What was dynamic excess becomes static imprisonment. The four lame and six blind may allude to the ten lines of a doubled hexagram, all incapacitated — a system so completely locked that nothing within it can shift.
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