頤 → 大有
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
六二 顛頤。拂經于丘。頤征凶。
Six in the second place means: Turning to the summit for nourishment, Deviating from the path To seek nourishment from the hill. Continuing to do this brings misfortune.
Line 3
六三 拂頤。貞凶。十年勿用。无攸利。
Six in the third place means: Turning away from nourishment. Perseverance brings misfortune. Do not act thus for ten years. Nothing serves to further.
Line 4
六四 顛頤。吉。虎視眈眈。其欲逐逐。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Turning to the summit For provision of nourishment Brings good fortune. Spying about with sharp eyes Like a tiger with insatiable craving. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
轟轟䡘䡘，驅車東西。盛盈必毀，高位崩顛。
Rumbling and clattering, driving the carriage east and west. What brims must shatter; the high seat topples and collapses.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder yields to fire blazing in heaven — Great Possession. Chariots rumble and thunder as they race east and west, a display of overwhelming abundance and power. Yet the verse pivots sharply: what brims over must shatter, and the high seat topples. The rumbling wheels echo the thunder beneath Nourishment's mountain, but now unleashed as unchecked momentum. From Nourishment to Great Possession, the transformation carries a warning embedded in the target hexagram itself: fire in heaven illuminates everything, but 'the gentleman curbs evil and promotes good.' Without that curbing, the very fullness that nourishment produces becomes the instrument of its own collapse.
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