豫 → 坤
Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
九四 由豫。大有得。勿疑。朋盍簪。
Nine in the fourth place means: The source of enthusiasm. He achieves great things. Doubt not. You gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
蔡侯朝楚，留連江濱；踰時歷月，思其后君。
The Marquis of Cai attended court in Chu, lingering long at the river edge; months passed beyond the season, longing for his lord back home.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder stirs the earth in joyful ceremony, but the Marquis of Cai finds himself detained at a foreign court. In 509 BC, Marquis Zhao of Cai visited the state of Chu to pay his respects, but the powerful minister Nang Wa coveted his fine furs and, when refused, had him detained for three years along the banks of the Yangtze. Month after month he lingered, longing for his own court and people. The verse captures a vassal's helplessness when enthusiasm for diplomacy meets predatory hospitality. From Enthusiasm to the Receptive, exuberant initiative dissolves into passive endurance: the earth that once rang with thunder now lies still, and the detained lord can only wait, yielding to circumstances beyond his control.
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