豫 → 明夷
Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 36: Darkening of the Light
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鶴盜我珠，逃於東都；懷怒追求，郭氏之墟。不見蹤跡，使伯心憂。
A crane stole my pearl and fled to the eastern capital; in angry pursuit I sought it, through the ruins of the Guo clan. No trace was found -- it makes the elder heart grieve.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder stirs the earth, but a crane has stolen a pearl and fled to the eastern capital. The owner pursues in anger, arriving at the ruins of the Guo clan's domain, where no trace can be found — and 'the elder brother' is left grieving. The crane-as-thief is a vivid image: a dignified bird carrying away treasure, vanishing into a fallen city. The ruins of Guo evoke the destruction of a once-great house, now just rubble through which the aggrieved party searches in vain. From Enthusiasm to Darkening of the Light, the transformation deepens the loss: brightness enters the earth and is extinguished. The stolen pearl — a point of luminous value — disappears into darkness, and the pursuer's rage yields only the grief of what cannot be recovered.
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