小畜 → 大壯
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 34: Great Power
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
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.
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
蝗食我稻，驅不可去；實穗無有，但見空藁。
Locusts devour my rice; driven off, they will not leave. Not a full ear remains; only empty stalks are seen.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven erupts into thunder roaring in the sky — Great Power unchecked. Locusts devour the rice, and no amount of driving chases them away. Full ears of grain are gone; nothing remains but hollow stalks. From Small Taming to Great Power, gentle cultivation is overwhelmed by raw force misdirected. Da Zhuang's thunder above heaven is immense energy that demands propriety to channel it — the gentleman must not tread where ritual forbids. The locusts are power without moral restraint: relentless, consuming, immune to resistance. The verse warns that when great strength serves only appetite, it reduces a cultivated field to empty husks. Power that devours what it should protect is no different from a plague.
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