大有大壯

Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 34: Great Power

大有
Great Possession
Fire / Heaven
大壯
Great Power
Thunder / Heaven
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Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).

Line 6

上九 自天祐之。吉无不利。

from
tiānheaven
yòuis protection
zhīis extended
promising
without
doubt
worthwhile

Nine at the top means: He is blessed by heaven. Good fortune. Nothing that does not further.

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramFire ThunderThe Clinging → The Arousing
Lower TrigramHeaven Heaven

Yilin Verse

癭瘤瘍疥,為身瘡害;疾病癃痢,常不屬逮。

Goiters, tumors, sores, and scabs, all are bodily afflictions. Disease and chronic ailment; one never keeps pace.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

Commentary

Tumors, boils, sores, and scabies afflict the body, becoming chronic wounds. Diseases accumulate — dysentery and wasting — until one can barely keep pace with daily life. The verse is a catalogue of physical decay: every ailment named represents a different kind of bodily corruption, and together they overwhelm the constitution. From Great Possession to Great Power, fire above heaven becomes thunder above heaven — explosive force. The irony is bitter: Great Power should be the hexagram of peak vitality, yet the verse describes a body in ruins. The implication is that Great Power misapplied — thunder in heaven without grounding in propriety — manifests as destructive excess turned inward, the body consuming itself through inflammation and disease.

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