中孚 → 大畜
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Line 3
六三 得敵。或鼓或罷。或泣或歌。
Six in the third place means: He finds a comrade. Now he beats the drum, now he stops. Now he sobs, now he sings.
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: He possesses truth, which links together. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
烏飛狐鳴，國亂不寧。下強上弱，為陰所刑。
Crows fly and foxes cry; the state falls to disorder. The low overpower the high; punished by yin forces.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, but crows fly and foxes cry — the state is in chaos. The strong dominate from below while the weak falter above, punished by the ascendant yin. Crows and foxes are traditional omens of disorder: the crow's daytime cry and the fox's nocturnal shriek signal the inversion of natural rhythms. From Inner Truth to Great Taming, sincerity meets heaven stored within the mountain. Great Taming is the accumulation of strength through restraint, but here the accumulated power belongs to the wrong hands. The lower ministers have grown too strong; the ruler is a puppet. When yin punishes yang and the base overwhelms the summit, even the mountain's capacity for storage becomes a prison for legitimate authority.
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