大過 → 離
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 藉用白茅。无咎。
Six at the beginning means: To spread white rushes underneath. No blame.
Line 2
九二 枯楊生稊。老夫得其女妻。无不利。
Nine in the second place means: A dry poplar sprouts at the root. An older man takes a young wife. Everything furthers.
Line 5
九五 枯楊生華。老婦得其士夫。无咎无譽。
Nine in the fifth place means: A withered poplar puts forth flowers. An older woman takes a husband. No blame. No praise.
Line 6
上六 過涉滅頂。凶。无咎。
Six at the top means: One must go through the water. It goes over one's head. Misfortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
憂凶為殘，使我不安。從之南國，以除心疾。
Dread and misfortune bring destruction; they give me no peace. Following the way to the southern land; thereby the heart’s affliction is cured.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind kindles into doubled fire — the Clinging, brightness illuminating brightness. Worry and dread ravage like cruelty, robbing one of peace. But the verse resolves: travel to the southern kingdom to cure the heart's sickness. The south is the direction of fire and warmth, the natural home of the Clinging trigram. The 'heart's sickness' is not physical but spiritual — an ailment of anxiety that can only be cured by moving toward clarity. From Great Exceeding to the Clinging, the waterlogged beam dries in doubled fire. What was bowing under excessive moisture finds its remedy in radiant light. The southern journey is both literal and metaphorical: one must move toward illumination to dispel the darkness that excess breeds within the mind.
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