小畜 → 否
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4).
Line 1
初九 復自道。何其咎。吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Return to the way. How could there be blame in this? Good fortune.
Line 2
九二 牽復。吉。
Nine in the second place means: He allows himself to be drawn into returning. Good fortune.
Line 3
九三 輿說輻。夫妻反目。
Nine in the third place means: The spokes burst out of the wagon wheels. Man and wife roll their eyes.
Line 4
六四 有孚。血去惕出。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: If you are sincere, blood vanishes and fear gives way. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
堅冰黃鳥，常哀愁悲；數驚鷙鳥，雛為我憂。
Hard ice and the yellow bird, always mournful and full of sorrow. Startled again and again by birds of prey; the nestlings grieve on my behalf.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven gives way to heaven and earth sealed apart. Hard ice encases the world as yellow birds cry in constant sorrow. A raptor startles them repeatedly; the fledglings tremble with fear for their parent. The yellow bird evokes the Shijing exile's lament — a stranger in a hostile land, crying 'Yellow birds, do not gather in my mulberry.' From Small Taming to Standstill, the gentle wind that once modulated heaven now freezes into complete separation. Pi is winter's hexagram: heaven and earth refuse to communicate. Ice, fear, and the vulnerable bird's grief compose a landscape where all connection has been severed and no warmth penetrates.
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