小過 → 蒙
Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).
Line 1
初六 飛鳥以凶。
Six at the beginning means: The bird meets with misfortune through flying.
Line 2
六二 過其祖。遇其妣。不及其君。遇其臣。无咎。
Six in the second place means: She passes by her ancestor And meets her ancestress. He does not reach his prince And meets the official. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
牙孽生齒，室堂啟戶。幽人利貞，鼓翼起舞。
Under the ice, grass shoots already push through the soil; inside the cocoon, moth wings slowly unfurl. The brushwood gate opens halfway — spring light enters; the one who sat in stillness stands up to look.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rumbles above the mountain, but beneath the ice, life stirs. The original verse reads: teeth and sprouts emerge, doors and halls open wide; the secluded person holds firm in rectitude and dances with beating wings. Buds push through frozen ground, a chrysalis splits to reveal forming wings, a gate swings half-open to admit spring light. The hermit's steadfast withdrawal now gives way to spontaneous movement — not ambition but the body's instinctive response to returning warmth. From Small Exceeding to Youthful Folly, thunder above the mountain yields to a spring emerging beneath the mountain. Both hexagrams share the mountain, but the energy shifts from above to below: what rumbled outward now wells up from within, innocent and unforced, the way a seedling finds light without instruction.
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