剝 → 益
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 42: Increase
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 剝牀以足。蔑貞凶。
Six at the beginning means: The leg of the bed is split. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Line 3
六三 剝之无咎。
Six in the third place means: He splits with them. No blame.
Line 5
六五 貫魚。以宮人寵。无不利。
Six in the fifth place means: A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies. Everything acts to further.
Line 6
上九 碩果不食。君子得輿。小人剝廬。
Nine at the top means: There is a large fruit still uneaten. The superior man receives a carriage. The house of the inferior man is split apart.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
揚花不時，冬實生危，憂多橫賊。生不能服，崑崙之玉，所求必得。
Blossoms scatter out of season; winter fruit faces peril, beset by many troubles and thieves. What is born cannot be tamed; yet the jade of Kunlun — what is sought shall surely be found.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain upon earth erodes into wind and thunder — Increase, where the upper diminishes itself to enrich the lower. Flowers bloom out of season and winter fruit faces danger; worries multiply as brigands strike. Yet those born without the power to subdue such troubles may still seek the jade of Kunlun — and what is sought will certainly be obtained. The verse pivots sharply from hardship to promise. The unseasonal blooming and winter peril describe a world out of phase, but the Kunlun jade represents something of incorruptible value lying beyond the chaos. From Splitting Apart to Increase, the mountain that collapses redistributes its substance downward. Wind and thunder work together to spread benefit widely. The jade of Kunlun — supreme treasure from the axis of the world — rewards those who persist through disorder, embodying Increase's principle that sacrifice from above enriches those below.
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