恆 → 大畜
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 浚恆貞凶。无攸利。
Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Line 4
九四 田无禽。
Nine in the fourth place means: No game in the field.
Line 6
上六 振恆凶。
Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
不孝之患，子為母殘，老耄莫養，獨坐空垣。
The affliction of unfilial piety; the child brings ruin upon the mother. Aged and infirm, with none to care for her; sitting alone within empty walls.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's familial constancy, hardens into mountain above heaven — Great Taming's massive restraint. The calamity of filial impiety: a child harms his own mother. The aged and infirm go unnourished; an old parent sits alone within empty walls. Duration's image of the enduring family bond is here catastrophically inverted. The child who should sustain the parent through time instead becomes the source of suffering. The old one, abandoned, embodies the cruelest failure of duration: time continuing without care. From Duration to Great Taming, the heaven that should be nurtured within the mountain is instead trapped and starved. The mountain accumulates nothing but emptiness, and the taming that should preserve wisdom instead imprisons the helpless.
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