賁 → 革
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 49: Revolution
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
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
逐憂去殃，洿泥生粱，下田為王。
Driving out worry, banishing calamity; from mire and mud, grain grows. The lowly field becomes a king.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain transforms adversity into sovereignty. Worries are driven off and calamities expelled; from muddy lowland, grain grows tall, and the humble field produces a king. The verse compresses a rags-to-royalty arc into three compact lines: first clearing away the negative, then growing sustenance from the worst soil, and finally ascending to rulership. From Grace to Revolution, fire beneath the mountain meets fire within the lake. Revolution's defining act is the replacement of one order by another — lake and fire in mutual opposition, each trying to extinguish the other. The mud-field-to-king trajectory captures Revolution's essence: what was lowest overturns what was highest. Grace's decorative order is abolished, and from the soil emerges an entirely new authority.
The Six Lines app includes all 4,096 Yilin verses, each with original ink brush artwork and full commentary. Download on the App Store