大有 → 漸
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 53: Development
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 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 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.
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
昧昧墨墨，不知白黑；景雲亂擾，光明隱伏；犬戎來攻，幽主失國。
Dim and murky, pitch-black; unable to tell white from black. Auspicious clouds are thrown into turmoil; radiance is hidden and obscured. The Quanrong barbarians attack; King You loses his kingdom.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Darkness upon darkness, murk upon murk — one cannot distinguish white from black. Auspicious clouds churn in confusion, and radiance hides itself away. The Quanrong attack, and King You loses his kingdom. The verse narrates the fall of the Western Zhou: King You, infatuated with his consort Bao Si, lit false beacon fires to amuse her, draining the trust of his feudal lords. When the Quanrong barbarians actually attacked, no one came to his aid, and the Western Zhou collapsed. Auspicious clouds in disorder suggests that even heaven's portents are scrambled — an entire cosmological order in collapse. From Great Possession to Development, fire above heaven becomes wind above mountain — gradual, orderly progress. The verse is Development's negative image: where gradual cultivation should prevail, sudden catastrophe erupts because moral development was neglected entirely.
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