大過 → 咸
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
愛我嬰女，牽引不與。冀幸高貴，反得不興。
Cherishing my infant daughter; pulling her back, refusing to give her away. Hoping for high and noble match; instead she gains no prosperity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind meets lake above mountain — Influence, the mutual attraction of opposites. One cherishes a beloved daughter but pulls her back and will not give her away, hoping for a noble match of high status. Yet the result is the opposite of flourishing. The verse depicts a parent's overprotective possessiveness: clinging to a daughter, refusing suitors, aiming too high — and achieving nothing. The lake atop the mountain in Influence represents openness and receptivity, but here the parent blocks the very exchange that Influence requires. From Great Exceeding to Influence, the overburdened structure should yield to mutual responsiveness. Instead, the excess manifests as excessive control — holding too tightly to what must be released, and losing everything through the refusal to let go.
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