大有 → 蒙
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
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 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.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
李梅零墜，心思憒憒；懷憂少愧，亂我魂氣。
Plum and apricot tumble and fall; the heart is muddled and confused. Harboring sorrow with little shame; it disorders my soul and spirit.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire blazes high in heaven, but here the fruits are falling. Plums and apricots drop from the branch — 零墜 evokes the Shijing's imagery of fruit dropping as youth passes. The heart is confused and muddled, carrying worry and a creeping shame that disorders the very soul-breath. From Great Possession to Youthful Folly, the mountain rises above a spring whose water runs clear but unseen. What was brightly possessed has slipped into bewilderment. The falling fruit suggests opportunities or loved ones lost in a season of confusion, and the troubled spirit cannot find its way back. The transformation captures how abundance, when it meets inexperience or naivety, can curdle into anxious disorientation rather than wisdom.
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