小畜

Hexagram 56: The Wanderer → Hexagram 9: Small Taming

The Wanderer
Mountain / Fire
小畜
Small Taming
Wind / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain WindKeeping Still → The Gentle
Lower TrigramFire HeavenThe Clinging → The Creative

Yilin Verse

鳴雞无距,與鵲格鬭。翅折目盲,為仇所傷。

A crowing cock without spurs fights and grapples with a magpie. Its wing is broken, its eye blinded; wounded by its foe.

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

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