恆 → 豐
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 2).
Line 1
初六 浚恆貞凶。无攸利。
Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Line 2
九二 悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
播輸折輻，馬不得行，豎牛之讒，賊其父兄。
The cart wheel breaks, the axle-spoke snaps; the horse cannot go on. Shu Niu’s slander destroys his own father and brothers.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's familial rhythm, meets thunder above fire — Abundance's blazing peak. The cart's axle shatters and its spokes snap; the horse cannot advance. Shuniu's slander destroys his own father and brothers. Shuniu was the illegitimate eldest son of Shusun Bao of Lu who murdered his half-brother and then starved his own father to death to seize control of the Shusun clan. The broken cart captures the household mechanism destroyed from within: the wheel that should turn enduringly has been sabotaged by one of its own spokes. From Duration to Abundance, thunder-and-fire should produce the peak of illuminated power. But Shuniu's treachery ensures the abundance is of destruction, not prosperity — the family's light blazes brightest at the moment of its self-immolation.
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