Hexagram:Great Taming Hexagram:Holding Together

I-Ching Transformation

26
Great Taming
Da Chu
Mountain / Heaven
8
Holding Together
Bi
Water / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6).

Line 1: 有厲利已

yǒuthis
hardship
worthwhile
to desist

Line 2: 輿說輹

輿the carriage
shuōis relieved
its axle strut

Line 3: 良馬逐利艱貞日閑輿衛利有攸往

liánga fine
horse
zhúgives chase
worth
jiāndifficult
zhēnpersistence
daily
xiántraining
輿in
wèiand
worthwhile
yǒuto have
yōusomewhere
wǎngto go

Line 5: 豶豕之牙吉

fénthe gelded
shǐboar
zhī...'s
tusks
promising

Line 6: 何天之衢亨

what
tiānheaven
zhī...'s
way
hēngthrough fulfillment

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramMountain Waterstillness to abysmal
Lower TrigramHeaven Earthyin-yang reversal

Yilin Verse

三塗五岳,去危入室。凶禍不作,桀盜堯服。失其寵福,貴人有疾。

Through the three passes and the five peaks, leaving peril and entering shelter. Calamity does not arise; Jie plunders but Yao dons the robes. He loses his favored blessing; the noble one falls ill.

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

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This page shows the transformation from hexagram 26 (Great Taming) to hexagram 8 (Holding Together). 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.