大有 → 乾
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Line 5
六五 厥孚交如。威如。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: He whose truth is accessible, yet dignified, Has good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
南山大行，困於空桑；老沙為石，牛馬無糧。
Southern mountains, the Great Taihang range; stranded at an empty mulberry grove. Old sand turns to stone; cattle and horses have no fodder.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire blazes in heaven, the image of Great Possession, yet this verse opens onto barren desolation. The Southern Mountain and the Taihang range loom vast, but the traveler finds himself stranded at Kongsang — 'Empty Mulberry,' a place-name evoking mythic desolation. Sand has aged into stone, and the oxen and horses have no fodder. What was once abundant has calcified: resources have dried up, roads have closed, and what should sustain life has turned to sterile rock. From Great Possession to the Creative, the doubled heaven suggests self-generating initiative, yet without earthly sustenance even heaven's creative force starves. The verse warns that raw creative power, ungrounded by practical provision, produces only magnificent emptiness.
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