賁 → 隨
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 17: Following
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 3
九三 賁如濡如。永貞吉。
Nine in the third place means: Graceful and moist. Constant perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 4
六四 賁如皤如。白馬翰如。匪寇婚媾。
Six in the fourth place means: Grace or simplicity? A white horse comes as if on wings. He is not a robber, He will woo at the right time.
Line 5
六五 賁于丘園。束帛戔戔。吝。終吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Grace in the hills and gardens. The roll of silk is meager and small. Humiliation, but in the end good fortune.
Line 6
上九 白賁。无咎。
Nine at the top means: Simple grace. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
秋隼冬翔，數被嚴霜；雞犬夜鳴，家擾不寧。
The autumn falcon soars in winter, battered again and again by bitter frost. Dogs and roosters cry in the night; the household is disturbed and finds no peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain turns cold. An autumn falcon soars into winter, repeatedly beaten by severe frost. Roosters and dogs cry through the night, and the household is restless and disturbed. The falcon — a creature of precision and power — flies against the season and suffers for it. Animals that should be silent at night raise alarm, signaling that the natural order is disrupted. From Grace to Following, the mountain's fire descends into thunder resting within the lake. Following's image suggests yielding to the natural rhythm: at nightfall, one should rest. The falcon fighting winter frost embodies the refusal to follow the season, and the household pays the price in sleepless anxiety.
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