巽 → 艮
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Line 2
九二 巽在牀下。用史巫。紛若。吉。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: Penetration under the bed. Priests and magicians are used in great number. Good fortune. No blame.
Line 5
九五 貞吉悔亡。无不利。无初有終。先庚三日。後庚三日。吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes. Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end. Before the change, three days. After the change, three days. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
宮門愁鳴，臣圍其君，不得東西。
The palace gate cries in grief; ministers surround their lord—he cannot go east or west.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into doubled mountain: the Gentle becomes Keeping Still. The palace gates cry out in grief; ministers surround their lord, who cannot move east or west. The verse presents a ruler trapped by his own court — immobilized not by external enemies but by the faction that supposedly serves him. The wailing gates suggest the palace itself mourns what is unfolding within. From The Gentle to Keeping Still, twin mountains stand facing each other, and the gentleman's thought does not stray beyond his position. But here stillness is not contemplative restraint — it is paralysis imposed by encirclement. The lord who should command finds himself the prisoner of those he elevated. Keeping still becomes keeping captive.
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