兌 → 大有
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
Line 3
六三 來兌凶。
Six in the third place means: Coming joyousness. Misfortune.
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Line 6
上六 引兌。
Six at the top means: Seductive joyousness.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
朽根刖樹，華葉落去。卒逢大焱，隨風僵仆。
Rotten roots, a severed tree; blossoms and leaves fall away. Suddenly meeting a great blaze, with the wind it collapses and falls.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes cannot sustain a rotting tree. The roots are decayed, the trunk amputated; leaves and blossoms fall away. Then a great fire arrives, and the dead wood collapses with the wind. Fire in heaven — the image of Great Possession — blazes overhead, but here it consumes rather than illuminates. From The Joyous to Great Possession, the verse inverts the hexagram's promise: what should be abundance becomes conflagration when the foundation is rotten. The fire that might have warmed and lit a living tree instead reduces the dead husk to ash. Possession without structural integrity is merely fuel for disaster.
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