賁 → 蹇
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 39: Obstruction
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
𨏈𨏈墳墳，火燒山根。不潤我鄰，獨不蒙恩。
Rumbling and heaving; fire burns at the mountain's base. It does not nourish my neighbor; alone, I receive no grace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain turns destructive. Rumbling and churning, fire burns at the mountain's base — but this fire brings no grace, only devastation. It does not moisten the neighbors; one alone receives no blessing. The fire that should adorn instead consumes, and its heat is distributed unfairly: those nearby are scorched while the speaker is left without even the warmth. From Grace to Obstruction, fire beneath the mountain meets water atop the mountain. Where Grace placed fire at the mountain's base as decoration, Obstruction places water at its summit as an impassable barrier. The verse's fire that fails to nourish transforms into the water that blocks all passage. Both positions — fire below, water above — are structurally unstable.
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