艮 → 履
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 艮其趾。无咎。利永貞。
Six at the beginning means: Keeping his toes still. No blame. Continued perseverance furthers.
Line 2
六二 艮其腓。不拯其隨。其心不快。
Six in the second place means: Keeping his calves still. He cannot rescue him whom he follows. His heart is not glad.
Line 3
九三 艮其限。列其夤。厲熏心。
Nine in the third place means: Keeping his hips still. Making his sacrum stiff. Dangerous. The heart suffocates.
Line 4
六四 艮其身。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Keeping his trunk still. No blame.
Line 5
六五 艮其輔。言有序。悔亡。
Six in the fifth place means: Keeping his jaws still. The words have order. Remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
䡘䡘轠轠，歲暮偏弊。寵名損棄，君衰於位。
Rattling, rumbling; the year's end brings ruin. Favor and fame cast aside; the lord declines upon his throne.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, but the wheels rattle and grind as the year draws to its close, everything worn and fraying. Favor and reputation are discarded; the lord weakens upon his seat. The sound of rattling wheels evokes a state carriage in decline — the vehicle of authority itself is breaking down. From Keeping Still to Treading, doubled mountain gives way to heaven above the lake, the image of proper conduct and hierarchical distinction. Yet the verse inverts that promise: instead of walking correctly upon the tiger's tail, the sovereign stumbles. The mountain's stillness should have been dignified restraint, but here it has calcified into irrelevance. Authority maintained too long without renewal becomes its own dissolution.
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