賁 → 坤
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 6).
Line 1
初九 賁其趾。舍車而徒。
Nine at the beginning means: He lends grace to his toes, leaves the carriage, and walks.
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 6
上九 白賁。无咎。
Nine at the top means: Simple grace. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鬼守我門，呼伯入山；去其室家，舍其兆墓。
Ghosts guard my gate; calling the elder into the hills. He leaves his household behind, forsaking his ancestral tombs.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain illuminates the threshold, but ghosts now guard the door. Someone calls for the elder brother to flee into the mountains — the family is abandoned, the ancestral graves forsaken. This is a scene of total dispossession: not merely losing property but severing the bond between the living and the dead, the most fundamental rupture in Chinese ancestral culture. From Grace to the Receptive, adornment dissolves into bare earth. The mountain's decorative fire gives way to the vast, undifferentiated plain of Kun. What was once a household adorned now becomes empty ground — the earth that receives all things, including the forgotten dead.
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