萃 → 大過
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
六二 引吉无咎。孚乃利用禴。
Six in the second place means: Letting oneself be drawn Brings good fortune and remains blameless. If one is sincere, It furthers one to bring even a small offering.
Line 3
六三 萃如嗟如。无攸利。往无咎。小吝。
Six in the third place means: Gathering together amid sighs. Nothing that would further. Going is without blame. Slight humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
亂頭多憂，搔虱生愁。膳夫仲尹，使我无聊。
Tangled hair and many worries; scratching lice breeds sorrow. The steward Zhong Yin leaves me in wretched tedium.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to the lake submerging wind, the extreme pressure of Great Exceeding. Disheveled hair and many worries; scratching at lice breeds only more anxiety. The provisioner Zhong Yin makes life unbearable. The 'shanfu' was the official in charge of royal meals, and Zhong Yin appears in the Shijing's 'Shi Yue Zhi Jiao' among the corrupt officials of King You's court, listed as the meal steward alongside Jia Bo the palace steward. When even the person responsible for daily sustenance becomes an oppressor, anxiety becomes inescapable. From Gathering to Great Exceeding, the ridgepole bends under accumulated weight. The gathered community's own internal functionaries, those meant to nourish, instead drain and torment, pushing the structure past its bearing capacity.
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