履 → 大有
Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
Line 3
六三 眇能視。跛能履。履虎尾。咥人凶。武人為于大君。
Six in the third place means: A one-eyed man is able to see, A lame man is able to tread. He treads on the tail of the tiger. The tiger bites the man. Misfortune. Thus does a warrior act on behalf of his great prince.
Line 5
九五 夬履。貞厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Resolute conduct. Perseverance with awareness of danger.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鍼鏤勝服，錦繡不成；鷹逐雉兔，爪折不得。
Needle-carved and finely stitched garments; the brocade embroidery remains unfinished. The hawk chases pheasant and hare; its talons break, gaining nothing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven above the lake, but fine craftsmanship yields no finished product. Needlework and engraving surpass the material, yet the brocade remains incomplete. A hawk swoops for pheasant and hare, but its talons snap and it catches nothing. Skill exceeds the means to apply it; ambition outruns capacity. The eagle's broken claw is especially vivid — raw predatory power defeated by a single structural failure. From Treading to Great Possession, the gap between potential and realization widens. Fire blazes in heaven but illuminates only what was never grasped. Abundance cannot be seized through force alone; the hawk that strikes too hard destroys its own instrument.
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