豫 → 賁
Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 鳴豫。凶。
Six at the beginning means: Enthusiasm that expresses itself Brings misfortune.
Line 3
六三 盱豫悔。遲有悔。
Six in the third place means: Enthusiasm that looks upward creates remorse. Hesitation brings remorse.
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.
Line 6
上六 冥豫。成有渝。无咎。
Six at the top means: Deluded enthusiasm. But if after completion one changes, There is no blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
泉閉澤竭，王母飢渴；君子困窮，乃徐有說。
Springs sealed, marshes drained; the Queen Mother thirsts. The gentleman in dire straits -- only slowly does relief come.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder stirs the earth, but the springs are sealed and the marshes have dried. Even the Queen Mother of the West thirsts. The gentleman is reduced to poverty — yet slowly, at last, relief comes. The Queen Mother, dwelling on Mount Kunlun above the Weak Water, guardian of the peaches of immortality, is the last figure one would expect to suffer thirst. If even she goes parched, the drought is cosmic in scale. Yet the verse turns: after extremity, comfort arrives. From Enthusiasm to Grace, the transformation paints fire glowing beneath the mountain — beauty emerging from constraint. The moment of greatest deprivation becomes the threshold of renewal, and the gentleman's patience is adorned with quiet dignity.
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