大有 → 臨
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 19: Approach
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
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 4
九四 匪其彭。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: He makes a difference Between himself and his neighbor. No blame.
Line 6
上九 自天祐之。吉无不利。
Nine at the top means: He is blessed by heaven. Good fortune. Nothing that does not further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
陰衰老極,陽建其德;離陽載光,天下昭明。
Yin fades, aged to its extreme; yang establishes its virtue. The bright sun carries its radiance; all under heaven is illumined.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Yin has declined to its extreme, old and exhausted. Yang now establishes its virtue, and the fire-bright Li trigram carries radiance aloft — the world is illuminated. The verse reads as a cosmological turning point: the spent yin force yields to resurgent yang, and light returns. From Great Possession to Approach, fire over heaven transforms into earth above the lake — the image of a sovereign approaching to teach and nurture without limit. The connection is precise: when yin's exhaustion reaches its nadir, yang's approach is not a conquest but a natural succession, like a teacher arriving when the student is ready. Li's light carried forward from Great Possession becomes the instrument of Approach's benevolent oversight.
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