小畜

Hexagram 35: Progress → Hexagram 9: Small Taming

Progress
Fire / Earth
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire WindThe Clinging → The Gentle
Lower TrigramEarth HeavenThe Receptive → The Creative

Yilin Verse

三嬴六罷,不能越跪,東賈失馬,往反勞苦。

Three wins and six defeats; unable even to kneel upright. The eastern merchant loses his horse; going and returning, nothing but toil and hardship.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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