艮 → 大過
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
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 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.
Line 6
上九 敦艮吉。
Nine at the top means: Noblehearted keeping still. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
和氣相薄，膏澤津液，生我嘉穀。
Harmonious vapors mingle and gather; rich moisture and dew nourish and bring forth our fine grain.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still as harmonious vapors gather and press together. Sweet dew condenses into nourishing moisture, giving birth to fine grain. The verse is entirely about fecundity through atmospheric convergence: gentle forces meeting, condensing, and producing abundance. No historical allusion is named; the imagery is cosmological and agricultural. From Keeping Still to Great Exceeding, doubled mountain yields to lake submerging the trees — a structure pushed beyond its normal limits. Yet here the excess is beneficent: the harmony of complementary forces generates more than the ordinary frame can hold. The mountain's patience allowed the vapors to converge naturally rather than being forced, and the harvest overflows its expected measure.
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