損 → 大有
Hexagram 41: Decrease → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
Line 3
六三 三人行。則損一人。一人行。則得其友。
Six in the third place means: When three people journey together, Their number decreases by one. When one man journeys alone, He finds a companion.
Line 4
六四 損其疾。使遄有喜。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: If a man deceases his faults, It makes the other hasten to come and rejoice. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
遂憂除殃，污泥生梁，下田為汪。
Worry expelled, calamity removed; muddy mire produces the ridgepole. The low field becomes a pond.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain above lake transforms into fire above heaven — Great Possession. Troubles dissolve and calamity is swept away. Muddy silt generates a ridge beam; low-lying fields become a pool. The verse traces an unexpected metamorphosis: what was polluted becomes structural, what was humble becomes a reservoir. From Decrease to Great Possession, the lake beneath the mountain evaporates upward as fire blazes in heaven. Decrease here is the process of purification — the mud that settles out of troubled water becomes the foundation for something new. The low field that floods becomes a resource rather than a wasteland. By accepting diminishment, the verse suggests, one discovers that loss itself can be the raw material of abundance.
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