小畜

Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward → Hexagram 9: Small Taming

Pushing Upward
Earth / Wind
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 5, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth WindThe Receptive → The Gentle
Lower TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative

Yilin Verse

牛驥同槽,郭氏以亡。國破為墟,君奔走逃。

The ox and the thoroughbred share the same trough; by this the house of Guo perishes. The state broken and made a ruin, the lord flees in haste.

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

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