大有 → 剝
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).
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 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
出門大步，與凶惡忤；罵公詈母，為我憂恥。
Stepping out with great strides; one collides with fierceness and evil. Cursing lord and reviling mother; it becomes our shame and worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Striding boldly out the door, one collides with malevolence. Curses rain down on father and mother alike, bringing shame and worry upon the household. The verse depicts a brash departure that immediately encounters hostility — the term suggests not mere misfortune but active malice. The cursing of one's parents represents the ultimate social degradation, an assault on filial bonds. From Great Possession to Splitting Apart, fire over heaven collapses into mountain resting on earth — the image of erosion from below. Splitting Apart's mechanism is exactly this: the base crumbles and the structure topples. The bold first step carries the walker straight into a world where propriety has already disintegrated, and the abuse of elders signals a society in terminal decay.
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