賁 → 剝
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 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 6
上九 白賁。无咎。
Nine at the top means: Simple grace. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
依叔墻隅，志下勞苦。楚相辰食，韓子低頭。
Leaning in the corner of an uncle's wall; one's aspirations are low, toiling in hardship. The Chu minister eats at the wrong hour; Master Han bows his head.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain illuminates a figure leaning against a wall in a corner, ambitions low, laboring in hardship. The Chu minister eats at the appointed hour; the Han prince bows his head. Both images suggest once-powerful figures reduced to subservience — eating on schedule like a dependent, lowering one's head in submission. The 'Chu minister' may allude to a fallen official dining without autonomy; 'Han prince' to one of the many Han royal scions forced into deference. From Grace to Splitting Apart, the mountain crumbles upon the earth. The decorative fire gutters out as the mountain's substance erodes from beneath. Adornment gives way to systematic stripping — position, pride, and agency peeled away layer by layer.
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