坤 → 大有
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 履霜堅冰至。
Six at the beginning means: When there is hoarfrost underfoot, Solid ice is not far off.
Line 2
六二 直方大。不習无不利。
Six in the second place means: Straight, square, great. Without purpose, Yet nothing remains unfurthered.
Line 3
六三 含章可貞。或從王事。无成有終。
Six in the third place means: Hidden lines. One is able to remain persevering. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works, but bring to completion.
Line 4
六四 括囊。无咎无譽。
Six in the fourth place means: A tied-up sack. No blame, no praise.
Line 6
上六 龍戰于野。其血玄黃。
Six at the top means: Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
奸延惡人，使德不通。炎火為殃，禾穀大傷。
Treacherous and vile men obstruct virtue’s passage. Blazing fire brings ruin; grain and crops are greatly harmed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth upon earth transforms into fire above heaven — Great Possession. Yet the verse is baleful: wicked people obstruct virtue's path, and fire becomes disaster, destroying the grain harvest. Fire in heaven, the image of Da You, represents abundance under illumination — fire above heaven, supreme clarity. But when that fire is wielded by the corrupt, illumination becomes conflagration. The grain — Kun's most essential product — is consumed. From the Receptive to Great Possession, the earth's bounty is placed under fire's dominion, and everything depends on who controls the flame. In the hands of the virtuous, fire crowns heaven with radiance; in the hands of the wicked, it burns the very crops the earth labored to produce.
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