小畜 → 泰
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。富以其鄰。
Nine in the fifth place means: If you are sincere and loyally attached, You are rich in your neighbor.
Line 6
上九 既雨既處。尚德載。婦貞厲。月幾望。君子征凶。
Nine at the top means: The rain comes, there is rest. This is due to the lasting effect of character. Perseverance brings the woman into danger. The moon is nearly full. If the superior man persists, Misfortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天門開闢，牢戶寥廓；桎梏解脫，拘囚縱釋。
Heaven is gate opens wide; the prison doors stand vast and empty. Shackles and fetters are cast off; the captives are set free.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven opens into the free exchange of heaven and earth. The gates of heaven swing wide; the prison doors stand vast and empty. Shackles and fetters fall away; the confined are released at last. From Small Taming to Peace, the transformation is among the most dramatic in the cycle. What the wind could only gently restrain now dissolves entirely as heaven descends and earth rises to meet it. Tai is the hexagram of open passage — spring itself — where no barrier holds. The verse distills this into one liberating image: what was locked is unlocked, what was bound walks free. Restraint fulfilled becomes release.
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