晉 → 大畜
Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).
Line 1
初六 晉如摧如。貞吉。罔孚。裕无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Progressing, but turned back. Perseverance brings good fortune. If one meets with no confidence, one should remain calm. No mistake.
Line 2
六二 晉如愁如。貞吉。受茲介福。于其王母。
Six in the second place means: Progressing, but in sorrow. Perseverance brings good fortune. Then one obtains great happiness from one's ancestress.
Line 3
六三 眾允悔亡。
Six in the third place means: All are in accord. Remorse disappears.
Line 4
九四 晉如鼫鼠。貞厲。
Nine in the fourth place means: Progress like a hamster. Perseverance brings danger.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
願望登虛，意常欲逃，賈辛醜惡，妻不安夫。
Wishing to climb the heights of emptiness; the heart always longs to escape. The merchant’s wife finds her husband loathsome; the wife is ill at ease with her lord.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire rises above the earth, yet the spirit yearns to ascend into emptiness — always wishing to flee. The merchant Jia Xin is ugly and repulsive, and the wife cannot abide her husband. The name 'Jia Xin' may refer to a historical figure, though its primary function here is characterological: the ugly merchant whose wife recoils. The verse captures incompatibility at its rawest — a marriage bound by convention but poisoned by revulsion. From Progress to Great Taming, the transformation is striking. Heaven stored within the mountain suggests vast potential held in check. But here the restraint is not noble discipline; it is a wife trapped in a household she longs to escape. Accumulation without harmony becomes a prison rather than a treasury.
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