泰 → 豐
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
Line 2
九二 包荒。用馮河。不遐遺。朋亡。得尚于中行。
Nine in the second place means: Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness, Fording the river with resolution, Not neglecting what is distant, Not regarding one's companions: Thus one may manage to walk in the middle.
Line 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
龍蛇所聚，大水來處；滑滑泲泲，使我無賴。
Where dragons and serpents gather, great floods come. Churning and surging; they leave us nothing to rely upon.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, Peace overwhelmed by serpentine flood. Dragons and snakes gather at the place where great waters converge. Slippery and murky currents surge, leaving one helpless and without recourse. The dragons and snakes suggest elemental forces massing beyond human control — not malicious individually, but collectively overwhelming. The wet, sliding chaos resists every attempt at stable footing. From Peace to Abundance, thunder and lightning arrive together, and the gentleman decides lawsuits and executes punishment. The transformation suggests that the chaotic deluge must be met with the decisive clarity of judicial thunder: when elemental forces converge, only sharp illumination paired with authoritative force can restore order.
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