豫 → 小過
Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm → Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 鳴豫。凶。
Six at the beginning means: Enthusiasm that expresses itself Brings misfortune.
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
李華再實，鴻卵降集；仁德以興，陰國受福。
The plum tree bears fruit a second time; the great swan egg descends to settle. With humane virtue all flourishes -- the hidden land receives its blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder stirs the earth, and the plum tree fruits a second time — an extraordinary doubling of harvest. Swan goose eggs descend and gather — another prodigious omen. Benevolent virtue rises, and a shadowed state receives blessing. The plum's double fruiting was a classical auspicious portent: nature producing beyond its normal cycle signals cosmic approval of the ruler's virtue. The descending swan eggs likewise suggest heaven showering bounty. From Enthusiasm to Small Exceeding, the transformation matches: thunder above the mountain, a small bird in flight that should descend rather than ascend. The verse's blessings arrive from above — they are not seized but received. Small Exceeding teaches that in certain seasons, exceeding the norm in small, humble ways brings unexpected abundance.
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