大有 → 未濟
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 64: Before Completion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
楩生荊山，命載輸班；袍衣剝脫，夏熱冬寒；立餓枯槁，眾人莫憐。
A catalpa tree grows on Mount Jing; its fate bids it be sawn and shipped. Bark and robes stripped away; summer's heat, winter's cold. Standing starved and desiccated; none among the people show pity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A pian-tree — the precious nanmu timber — grows on Jing Mountain, destined by fate for the workshop of the master carpenter Lu Ban. Yet its robes are stripped away, exposed to summer heat and winter cold. It stands starving, withered to a husk, and no one takes pity. Jing Mountain is famous as the source of Bian He's jade, and the name refers to the legendary craftsman Gongshu Ban (Lu Ban). The precious timber's fate is a parable of talent misused: born of the finest stock and earmarked for the greatest artisan, it nevertheless rots in neglect. From Great Possession to Before Completion, fire above heaven becomes fire above water — perpetually unable to achieve synthesis. The timber never reaches the carpenter's bench. Potential unrealized is the cruelest form of loss.
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