大畜

Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 26: Great Taming

The Gentle Wind
Wind / Wind
大畜
Great Taming
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramWind MountainThe Gentle → Keeping Still
Lower TrigramWind HeavenThe Gentle → The Creative

Yilin Verse

爭雞失羊,亡其金囊,利得不長。陳蔡之患,賴楚以安。

Fighting over the chicken, losing the sheep; losing one's gold purse—profit gained does not last. The troubles of Chen and Cai; they relied on Chu for safety.

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

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