大畜

Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 26: Great Taming

Breakthrough
Lake / Heaven
大畜
Great Taming
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake MountainThe Joyous → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramHeaven Heaven

Yilin Verse

始加元服,二十繫室。新婚既樂,伯季有得。

First receiving the capping ceremony; at twenty, establishing a household. Newly wed and joyful; the eldest and youngest all prosper.

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

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