夬 → 頤
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 惕號。莫夜有戎。勿恤。
Nine in the second place means: A cry of alarm. Arms at evening and at night. Fear nothing.
Line 3
九三 壯于頄。有凶。君子夬夬。獨行遇雨。若濡有慍。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: To be powerful in the cheekbones Brings misfortune. The superior man is firmly resolved. He walks alone and is caught in the rain. He is bespattered, And people murmur against him. No blame.
Line 4
九四 臀无膚。其行次且。牽羊悔亡。聞言不信。
Nine in the fourth place means: There is no skin on his thighs, And walking comes hard. If a man were to let himself be led like a sheep, Remorse would disappear. But if these words are heard They will not be believed.
Line 5
九五 莧陸夬夬。中行无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: In dealing with weeds, Firm resolution is necessary. Walking in the middle Remains free of blame.
Line 6
上六 无號。終有凶。
Six at the top means: No cry. In the end misfortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
二室靈臺，文所止遊。雲物備故，長樂无憂。
The twin spirit towers where King Wen would pause and roam. Cloud signs and omens all accounted for; lasting joy without sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake risen above heaven rests within the mountain that contains thunder below. 'Two chambers and the Spirit Terrace' — the Ling Tai was King Wen's observatory and pleasure ground, celebrated in the Shijing ode of the same name as a place where the people gathered joyfully. The verse pictures a ruler whose spiritual retreat is also a public gift: clouds and creatures are fully provided for, and long happiness knows no sorrow. From Breakthrough to Nourishment, the decisive cut gives way to careful sustenance. Mountain above thunder: the mouth that takes in, the jaws that chew slowly. The Spirit Terrace nourishes both body and spirit — the king's contemplative space feeds the commonwealth, and what enters through proper discernment sustains all without excess.
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