小畜 → 頤
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
望幸不到，文章未就；王子逐走，馬騎啣傷；昳跡不得，曷其有常。
Hoping for the royal visit, but it does not come; the writings remain unfinished. The prince is driven to flee; horse and rider wounded by the bit. Tracks erased, nothing gained -- how can there be constancy?
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven settles into the mountain's still nourishment. Hopes for imperial favor go unfulfilled; the literary composition remains unfinished. A prince flees in haste, his horse stumbles and bites its wound. Tracks vanish, irrecoverable — what constancy can there be? From Small Taming to Nourishment, the verse darkens what should be the mountain's caring stillness. Yi's image — mountain over thunder — counsels careful speech and measured sustenance. Yet here all nourishment fails: the awaited patron never arrives, the work of art is left incomplete, and the prince's flight scatters all possibility of stability. Nourishment requires a steady hand, and this verse shows what happens when the provider bolts.
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