大有 → 中孚
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
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.
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
晨昏潛處，候明昭昭；卒連白日，為世榮主。
Concealed in dusk and dawn; watchful for the bright and clear. In time, one joins the white sun; becoming the world's glorious lord.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Dawn and dusk one hides in obscurity, waiting for the brightness that will surely come. At last one is joined to the white sun, becoming a radiant lord of the age. The verse traces an arc from concealment to glory: hiding at dawn and dusk describes someone biding their time in darkness, patiently watching for the moment of illumination, and finally being crowned with solar brilliance. From Great Possession to Inner Truth, fire above heaven becomes wind above lake — the open center that allows truth to resonate outward. The verse embodies Inner Truth's mechanism: sincerity held in obscurity eventually radiates with undeniable force. The one who waits with genuine inner conviction does not seize the light — the light comes to find them.
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