小過 → 需
Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding → Hexagram 5: Waiting
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 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 5
六五 密雲不雨。自我西郊。公弋取彼在穴。
Six in the fifth place means: Dense clouds, No rain from our western territory. The prince shoots and hits him who is in the cave.
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
使伯東求，拒不肯行。與叔爭訟，更相毀傷。
The elder brother was sent east on a mission, but refused to go; with the younger brother he entered into litigation, and they wounded each other.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rumbles above the mountain, but the envoy refuses his mission. Ordered to send the elder brother east on a diplomatic errand, the younger brother resists and will not go. The siblings then fall into litigation, each inflicting harm upon the other. What should be cooperative governance — one brother dispatched, another managing affairs at home — collapses into fraternal rivalry. The verse portrays authority that cannot command obedience even within a household. From Small Exceeding to Waiting, the mountain's thunder transforms into water suspended above heaven — danger that has not yet fallen. The brothers' mutual destruction is not yet complete; it hangs overhead like gathering clouds, each party waiting for the other to break first.
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