艮 → 泰
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).
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 6
上九 敦艮吉。
Nine at the top means: Noblehearted keeping still. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
放衘委轡，奔亂不制。法度无恆，君失其位。
Bit cast off, reins abandoned; bolting in chaos, uncontrolled. Laws and measures have no constancy; the lord loses his throne.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, but the reins are dropped and the bridle abandoned — the horse bolts in chaos, utterly uncontrolled. Laws and standards lack constancy; the ruler loses his seat. The image is a chariot whose driver has released every constraint, reducing governance to a stampede. From Keeping Still to Peace, doubled mountain should yield to the harmonious interchange of heaven and earth. Yet the verse presents the grotesque parody of peace: total collapse of discipline mistaken for openness. Peace requires heaven below and earth above, each reaching toward the other. Here the mountain's stillness was merely rigidity, and when it finally broke, there was no structure to catch the fall — only the runaway horse of unchecked power.
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