大有 → 否
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).
Line 1
初九 无交害。匪咎。艱則无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: No relationship with what is harmful; There is no blame in this. If one remains conscious of difficulty, One remains without blame.
Line 2
九二 大車以載。有攸往。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: A big wagon for loading. One may undertake something. No blame.
Line 3
九三 公用亨于天子。小人弗克 。
Nine in the third place means: A prince offers it to the Son of Heaven. A petty man cannot do this.
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
乾行天德，覆幬無極；嘔呼烹熟，使各自得。
Qian moves with heaven's virtue; its canopy covers without limit. Nurturing and ripening all things; each finds its proper place.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven moves with supreme virtue, its canopy sheltering all things without limit. With patient care it tends and ripens each creature, letting everything find its proper place. The verse evokes a cosmic kitchen: the sounds of cooking and calling — the universe as nourishing cauldron, each being brought to its natural fulfillment. From Great Possession to Standstill, fire over heaven transforms into heaven and earth failing to communicate. Yet the verse itself describes perfect governance, suggesting that the ideal state described here is precisely what Standstill threatens. The counsel reads as: remember this vision of universal nourishment, for when heaven and earth cease to interact, the sage must hold to frugal virtue and refuse the lure of emolument.
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