大有 → 遯
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 33: Retreat
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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
三癡俱狂，欲之平鄉；迷惑失道，不知昏明。
Three fools, all mad; they seek the level village. Bewildered and losing the way; they cannot tell dusk from dawn.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Three fools together in madness, craving the peaceful village. But they have lost their way in confusion and cannot tell dusk from dawn. The verse presents a collective delusion: three people share the same folly, each reinforcing the others' disorientation. They desire safety but cannot navigate toward it because they have lost the most basic capacity for judgment — distinguishing light from dark. From Great Possession to Retreat, fire above heaven becomes heaven towering above the mountain. Retreat's counsel is to distance oneself from petty persons with dignity, not hostility. The three fools embody what the retreating sage must leave behind: the madness of the crowd that mistakes night for day. Wisdom begins with the decision to withdraw.
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