升 → 大過

Commentary

Wood grows within the earth, yet poverty and illness afflict a royal scion wandering in the northern wilds. There is no succession, no heir to carry forward the line; fate is bitter, fortune meager, and the household stands orphaned at its gate. The phrase 'northern wilds without succession' suggests a lineage broken at its most remote and hostile frontier, with no one left to perform the ancestral rites. Lake over wind, the image of Great Exceeding, shows the ridgepole sagging under impossible weight. From Pushing Upward to Great Exceeding, the ascending impulse pushes beyond what the structure can bear. A family pressed to its limit finds no heir, no continuation — the wood grows too high for its roots.