復 → 大有
Hexagram 24: Return → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 休復。吉。
Six in the second place means: Quiet return. Good fortune.
Line 3
六三 頻復。厲。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Repeated return. Danger. No blame.
Line 4
六四 中行獨復。
Six in the fourth place means: Walking in the midst of others, One returns alone.
Line 6
上六 迷復。凶。有災眚。用行師。終有大敗。以其國君凶。至于十年不克征。
Six at the top means: Missing the return. Misfortune. Misfortune from within and without. If armies are set marching in this way, One will in the end suffer a great defeat, Disastrous for the ruler of the country. For ten years It will not be possible to attack again.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
冠危戴患，身驚不安。與福馳逐，凶來入門。
The cap teeters, bearing calamity; the body trembles, finding no peace. Chasing after fortune in vain; misfortune enters through the gate.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder returns beneath the earth, but the returning figure wears his cap askew and bears disaster on his head. Body trembling, spirit restless, he races after blessings that recede before him while misfortune enters through the gate uninvited. The imagery inverts the auspicious return: instead of the yang line bringing renewal, it brings anxiety dressed as ambition. The one who chases fortune only hastens calamity's arrival. From Return to Great Possession, fire blazes above heaven — supreme abundance. Yet the verse warns that possession without composure becomes its own torment. The transformation reveals that grasping at prosperity from a position of inner panic repels the very fortune one seeks.
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