中孚 → 大有
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
Line 3
六三 得敵。或鼓或罷。或泣或歌。
Six in the third place means: He finds a comrade. Now he beats the drum, now he stops. Now he sobs, now he sings.
Line 4
六四 月幾望。馬匹亡。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The moon nearly at the full. The team horse goes astray. No blame.
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: He possesses truth, which links together. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
代戍失期，患生无聊。懼以發難，為我開基，邦國憂愁。
Garrison duty runs past its term; troubles arise without end. Fear sparks rebellion; establishing our foundation, yet the state falls to sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake as garrison troops miss their deadline, and desperation breeds revolt. Fear itself becomes the spark for uprising, founding a new order while plunging the old state into turmoil. The verse unmistakably echoes the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebellion of 209 BC: conscripts delayed by rain faced execution under Qin law, so they chose revolt over certain death. Their cry — 'Are kings and lords born to their station?' — opened the dynasty's grave. From Inner Truth to Great Possession, the lake's quiet sincerity erupts into fire blazing above heaven. What begins as authentic despair transforms into overwhelming force. The passage from trust betrayed to revolutionary seizure is the darkest form of Great Possession: power born from the ruins of broken faith.
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