剝 → 豫
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
Line 3
六三 剝之无咎。
Six in the third place means: He splits with them. No blame.
Line 4
六四 剝牀以膚。凶。
Six in the fourth place means: The bed is split up to the skin. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
鶴盜我珠，逃於東都。鵠怒追求，郭氏之墟。不見武跡，反為患災。
The crane stole my pearl and fled to the eastern capital. The swan pursued in fury to the ruins of Guo. Finding no trace of the prize, it brought only calamity in return.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain upon earth erodes, and thunder breaks from the ground with exuberant force — Enthusiasm. A crane steals a pearl and flees to the eastern capital. The swan, enraged, gives chase to the ruins of the Guo state. But no trace of the quarry is found, and pursuit brings only disaster. The imagery reads as a fable of misdirected pursuit: the precious thing is stolen by a bird of heaven, and the pursuer rushes headlong into a wasteland. The 'ruins of Guo' recall the destroyed state of Guo, obliterated by Jin in 655 BC — a place where nothing remains. From Splitting Apart to Enthusiasm, the mountain's collapse releases explosive energy, but enthusiasm without a target is merely recklessness. The chaser arrives at ruins and finds neither pearl nor crane — only the consequences of blind momentum.
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