賁 → 咸
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 31: Influence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 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 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
三足俱行，傾危善僵。六指不使，慁累弟兄。樹柱閡車，失其正當。
Three legs walking together, prone to topple and fall. Six fingers one cannot use; a burden and trouble to one's brothers. A pillar set to block the cart; it loses its proper course.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain exposes structural deformity. Three legs walking together topple and fall prone. Six fingers on a hand are useless, burdening one's brothers. A pillar planted in the road blocks the carriage, losing its proper function. Every image here is of excess that impedes rather than helps: the extra leg unbalances, the extra finger encumbers, the misplaced pillar obstructs. From Grace to Influence, the mountain descends beneath the lake. Influence (Xian) is about genuine mutual response — the lake above, the mountain below, moisture descending while the mountain receives. But the verse shows connection gone wrong: superfluities that create burden rather than resonance. True influence requires reduction to essentials, not accumulation of useless parts.
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