Hexagram:Standstill Hexagram:Great Taming

I-Ching Transformation

12
Standstill
Pi
Heaven / Earth
26
Great Taming
Da Chu
Mountain / Heaven
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Line 1: 拔茅茹以其彙貞吉亨

pulling
máothatch
by the roots
thereby
uprooting its
huìwhole cluster
zhēnpersistence
promising
hēngfulfilling

Line 2: 包承小人吉大人否亨

bāoembrace
chéngassignments
xiǎolesser
rénone's
promise
mature
rénhuman being's
negated
hēngfulfillment

Line 3: 包羞

bāoembracing
xiūthe shame

Line 4: 有命無咎疇離祉

yǒuhaving
mìnghigher purpose
no
jiùwrong
chóuthis category
distinct
zhǐhappiness

Line 5: 休否大人吉其亡其亡繫于苞桑

xiūretiring from
the separation
mature
rénhuman being
promise
this
wángpasses
that
wángpasses
secured
with
bāothe seedlings
sāngof mulberry

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven Mountaincreative to stillness
Lower TrigramEarth Heavenyin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

磨石轉了千萬圈,麥粉滿地人未眠。一擔未卸又上肩,白髮幾莖生枕邊。

The millstone has turned ten thousand times; flour covers the floor but no one has slept. One load is not yet set down before another is shouldered — a few white hairs appear by the pillow.

— Jiao Yanshou (焦延壽), Yilin (焦氏易林), 1st century BCE

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 12 (Standstill) to hexagram 26 (Great Taming). In the I-Ching, when a reading produces changing lines, the hexagram transforms into another hexagram, providing guidance for both the current situation and its eventual evolution.