小畜 → 艮
Hexagram 9: Small Taming → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
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 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
折臂踒足，不能進酒；祠祀闊曠，神怒不喜。
A broken arm, a twisted foot; unable to pour the wine. Ancestral rites grow sparse and distant; the spirits rage with displeasure.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind above heaven hardens into doubled mountain — Keeping Still's absolute arrest. An arm is broken, a foot twisted; one cannot even present the sacrificial wine. The ancestral shrine stands empty too long, and the spirits grow displeased. From Small Taming to Keeping Still, the gentle wind freezes into the mountain's immobility. Gen's image is thinking that does not exceed one's place. But here stillness has become incapacity: the body is too damaged to perform ritual duties, and the prolonged neglect of worship angers the gods. When stillness is not chosen discipline but enforced helplessness, it severes the vital link between the human and the divine. The mountain that should anchor becomes a prison of the broken body.
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