大有 → 艮
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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 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
天災所遊，凶不可居；轉徙獲福，留止危憂。
What heaven's disasters roam; too dire a place to dwell. Relocating brings good fortune; staying invites danger and worry.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Disaster roams this place — it is too dangerous to stay. Those who relocate find blessings; those who remain face peril and anxiety. The verse delivers a clear oracular verdict: move or suffer. The current location is marked as cursed ground. From Great Possession to Keeping Still, fire above heaven becomes doubled mountain — the image of stillness and staying in one's place. The tension is deliberate: the hexagram counsels stillness, but the verse counsels flight. The resolution lies in knowing which place to be still in. Keeping Still does not mean clinging to a doomed position; it means finding the right position and then holding it. The blessing comes from choosing wisely where to stop.
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