坤 → 大過
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).
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 5
六五 黃裳。元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: A yellow lower garment brings supreme good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
瘤癭禿疥，為身瘡害。疾病癃殘，常不遠逮。
Tumors, goiters, baldness, and scabies; sores and afflictions of the body. Illness and crippling disability; always one falls short and cannot reach.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth upon earth transforms into lake above wind — Great Exceeding. Tumors, boils, baldness, and scabies afflict the body as open wounds. Chronic illness and disability persist; one can never keep pace. Lake submerging wind, the image of Da Guo, shows the ridgepole sagging under unbearable weight — excess that strains past the breaking point. The verse renders this structurally: the body itself becomes the overloaded ridgepole, deformed by accumulated ailments until normal function is impossible. From the Receptive to Great Exceeding, the earth's capacity to absorb reaches its limit. What Kun bore patiently has accumulated beyond endurance, and the structure — whether body or state — buckles under the weight of what was never properly treated.
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