大有 → 咸
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 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 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.
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
臝襢逐狐，為人觀笑；牝雞司晨，主作亂根。
Naked, chasing a fox; the spectacle draws laughter. The hen crows at dawn; she becomes the root of disorder.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A figure strips naked to chase a fox, becoming a laughingstock. Then the hen crows at dawn — usurping the rooster's role — and becomes the root of chaos. The first image mocks undignified pursuit: someone so desperate they shed all propriety. The second invokes the famous warning from the Book of Documents: 'When the hen crows at dawn, it signals the household's ruin.' From Great Possession to Influence, fire over heaven becomes lake atop the mountain — mutual attraction, the stirring of feeling. The verse warns that Influence's receptive openness, when misapplied, invites disorder. The naked fox-chaser and the crowing hen both represent improper responsiveness: one drawn to the wrong object, the other seizing the wrong role.
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