小過 → 蒙
Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).
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.
Line 3
九三 弗過防之。從或戕之。凶。
Nine in the third place means: If one is not extremely careful, Somebody may come up from behind and strike him. Misfortune.
Line 4
九四 无咎。弗過遇之。往厲必戒。勿用永貞。
Nine in the fourth place means: No blame. He meets him without passing by. Going brings danger. One must be on guard. Do not act. Be constantly persevering.
Line 6
上六 弗遇過之。飛鳥離之。凶。是謂災眚。
Six at the top means: He passes him by, not meeting him. The flying bird leaves him. Misfortune. This means bad luck and injury.
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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