遯 → 小畜
Hexagram 33: Retreat → Hexagram 9: Small Taming
䷠
遯
Retreat
Heaven / Mountain
→
䷈
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4).
Trigram Changes
Upper TrigramHeaven → WindThe Creative → The Gentle
Lower TrigramMountain → HeavenKeeping Still → The Creative
Yilin Verse
畜牝無駒，養雞不雛，群羊三歲，不生兩頭。
Raise a mare, no foal is born; keep hens, no chicks hatch. A flock of sheep at three years old; not one bears twin young.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
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