大有 → 晉
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三豕俱走，鬭於虎口；白豕不勝，死於坂下。
Three boars charge together, fighting at the tiger's jaws. The white boar does not prevail; it dies at the foot of the slope.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Three boars charge together, clashing at the tiger's jaws. The white boar cannot prevail and dies at the foot of the slope. The scene is visceral: three pigs rush headlong into the most dangerous place imaginable — the tiger's mouth — and the white one, distinguished by color but not by strength, falls first. From Great Possession to Progress, fire above heaven becomes fire above earth — the sun rising over the land, illuminating all. Progress should be a hexagram of advancement and recognition, but the white boar's failed charge suggests that advancing heedlessly into danger, even with distinguishing marks, ends in destruction. The tiger's mouth is the obstacle that progress must navigate, not assault directly.
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