咸 → 豐
Hexagram 31: Influence → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Line 1
初六 咸其拇。
Six at the beginning means: The influence shows itself in the big toe.
Line 5
九五 咸其脢。无悔。
Nine in the fifth place means: The influence shows itself in the back of the neck. No remorse.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
亂君之門，佐鬭傷跟，營私貪祿，身為悔殘，東下泰山，見我所歡。
At the disordered lord's gate; joining the fray, heels are wounded. Scheming for private gain and salary; the body is left in regret and ruin. Descending east from Mount Tai; there I see my beloved.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A lake upon a mountain, and the scene at the gate of a disordered ruler unfolds. Those who abet the lord's quarrels are wounded in the heel; those who pursue private gain and covet stipends find their bodies ruined by remorse. Then an unexpected turn: descending eastward from Mount Tai, one meets the beloved. The verse divides into two halves — the political and the personal. Court intrigue destroys those who participate; only by departing the corrupt center and descending the sacred mountain does one find genuine human connection. From Influence to Abundance, the mountain's openness becomes thunder and lightning together — overwhelming fullness. Abundance warns that the sun at zenith must decline. The verse enacts this: leaving the peak of power for the eastern slope, one trades false abundance for true reunion.
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