賁 → 夬
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 43: Breakthrough
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 賁其須。
Six in the second place means: Lends grace to the beard on his chin.
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
光體春成，陳倉雞鳴。陽明失道，不能自守。消亡為咎。
The radiant body is formed in spring; the rooster of Chencang crows. Yang's brightness has lost its way; it cannot maintain itself. Diminishing into ruin.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain meets the sacred rooster of Chenbao. The light-body completes its spring form, and the Chencang rooster crows — referencing Qin's most revered deity at Chencang, where two spirit children declared 'He who obtains the female shall become hegemon; he who obtains the male shall become king' before transforming into pheasants. Yet the solar bird (yang brilliance) loses its way and cannot maintain its course: dissolution follows as blame. From Grace to Breakthrough, fire beneath the mountain gives way to the lake rising above heaven. Breakthrough is decisive elimination of what is corrupt. The Chenbao rooster crowed with prophetic power, but when yang energy cannot hold its course, even sacred omens lead to ruin. The breakthrough demanded here is cutting away misdirected brilliance.
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