頤 → 豫
Hexagram 27: Nourishment → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
Line 1
初九 舍爾靈龜。觀我朶頤。凶。
Nine at the beginning means: You let your magic tortoise go, And look at me with the corners of your mouth drooping. Misfortune.
Line 4
六四 顛頤。吉。虎視眈眈。其欲逐逐。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Turning to the summit For provision of nourishment Brings good fortune. Spying about with sharp eyes Like a tiger with insatiable craving. No blame.
Line 6
上九 由頤。厲吉。利涉大川。
Nine at the top means: The source of nourishment. Awareness of danger brings good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
至德之君，政仁且溫。伊呂股肱，國富民安。
A lord of utmost virtue; his governance humane and gentle. With Yi Yin and Lu Shang as limbs; the state grows rich, the people at peace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain over thunder, the jaws of nourishment, opens into thunder emerging from the earth — Enthusiasm. A ruler of supreme virtue governs with benevolence and warmth. Yi Yin and Lu Shang serve as his arms and legs, the state grows rich and the people rest secure. Yi Yin, the cook-turned-minister who helped King Tang found the Shang, and Lu Shang (Taigong), the fisherman-strategist who aided King Wu of Zhou, represent the ideal of humble talent elevated to serve a righteous ruler. From Nourishment to Enthusiasm, the transformation is joyful: when nourishment is rightly administered through sage ministers, thunder breaks forth from the earth as music and celebration, and the whole realm rejoices.
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