恆 → 大有
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Line 1
初六 浚恆貞凶。无攸利。
Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Line 6
上六 振恆凶。
Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
憂人之患，履傷浮願，為身禍殘，篤心自守。
Grieving for another’s suffering, the tread wounds and hopes go astray. Calamity maims the body; a steadfast heart guards itself.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's constancy, transforms into fire above heaven — Great Possession's blazing abundance. One worries over another's troubles and walks a path of injury and hollow aspiration, bringing bodily harm and misfortune. Yet the resolution comes through wholehearted self-discipline: 'earnestly guard the self.' The verse describes the danger of extending compassion beyond capacity — absorbing others' burdens until one's own foundation crumbles. The cure is not indifference but focused self-cultivation. From Duration to Great Possession, the steady rhythm should yield great abundance, but only when the fire of ambition is disciplined by inner constancy. Scatter that energy on others' crises without tending one's own hearth, and Duration's promise dissipates into ruin.
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