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Hexagram 14 大有 changing to hexagram 18 蠱

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Changing lines (counted from the bottom): 1, 4.

What to read

Two changing lines: read both line texts of the original hexagram; the upper one is the main one. (Rule set out by Zhu Xi in the Yixue qimeng.)

Hexagram 14 大有, line 4

匪其尫,无咎。

The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject keeping his great resources under restraint. There will be no error.

Hexagram 14 大有, line 1

无交害,匪咎,艱則无咎。

In the first line, undivided, there is no approach to what is injurious, and there is no error. Let there be a realisation of the difficulty (and danger of the position), and there will be no error (to the end).

The two hexagrams

Hexagram 14 大有 — judgment

元亨。

Tâ Yû indicates that, (under the circumstances which it implies), there will be great progress and success.

Hexagram 18 蠱 — judgment

元亨。利涉大川。先甲三日,後甲三日。

Kû indicates great progress and success (to him who deals properly with the condition represented by it). There will be advantage in (efforts like that of) crossing the great stream. (He should weigh well, however, the events of) three days before the turning point, and those (to be done) three days after it.

The changing lines of hexagram 14

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1无交害,匪咎,艱則无咎。In the first line, undivided, there is no approach to what is injurious, and there is no error. Let there be a realisation of the difficulty (and danger of the position), and there will be no error (to the end).
4匪其尫,无咎。The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject keeping his great resources under restraint. There will be no error.

English: James Legge (1882), public domain. Chinese: Zhou Yi.

Data: English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0); Chinese Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.