小畜 → 家人
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 37: The Family
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
Line 2
九二 牽復。吉。
Nine in the second place means: He allows himself to be drawn into returning. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
兩輪自轉，南上大阪；四馬共轅，無有重難；與禹笑言。鶴鳴竅穴，不離其室。
Two wheels turn of themselves, climbing south up the great slope. Four horses share one shaft; no burden too heavy to bear -- laughing and talking with Yu. The crane calls from its burrow; it does not leave its chamber.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven transforms into wind emerging from fire — the warmth of The Family radiating outward. Two wheels turn freely, climbing the great southern slope. Four horses share one shaft with no difficulty at all, and the traveler shares laughter with Yu the Great himself. A crane calls from its hidden hollow, never straying from its chamber. From Small Taming to The Family, the verse is radiant with domestic harmony extended outward. Yu the Great — the flood-tamer who passed his own door three times without entering — represents the ideal of public service grounded in family loyalty. The crane calling from its den echoes the Shijing's hidden virtue that makes itself known. Family's wind from fire: inner warmth becoming gentle influence abroad.
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