巽 → 小過
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).
Line 1
初六 進退。利武人之貞。
Six at the beginning means: In advancing and in retreating, The perseverance of a warrior furthers.
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 3
九三 頻巽吝。
Nine in the third place means: Repeated penetration. Humiliation.
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
德之流行，利之四鄉。雨師洒道，風伯逐殃。巡狩封禪，以告成功。
Virtue flows and spreads; bringing benefit to the four directions. The Rain Master sprinkles the road; the Wind Earl drives off evil. The royal tour, the feng and shan sacrifices; announcing success to Heaven.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into thunder over mountain: the Gentle becomes Small Exceeding. Virtue flows outward, blessing all four directions. The Rain Master sprinkles the roads; the Wind Lord drives pestilence away. The sovereign undertakes a grand inspection tour and performs the feng and shan sacrifices to announce his achievements to heaven. The verse describes imperial ceremony at its grandest: cosmic forces mobilized as ritual attendants, heaven and earth purified for the emperor's progress. The Rain Master and Wind Lord are divine functionaries of the cosmic bureaucracy. From The Gentle to Small Exceeding, thunder atop the mountain: the gentleman exceeds in reverence, in mourning, in frugality. The imperial tour embodies this: going slightly beyond the ordinary to acknowledge heaven's mandate through extraordinary ceremony.
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