家人 → 豫
Hexagram 37: The Family → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初九 閑有家。悔亡。
Nine at the beginning means: Firm seclusion within the family. Remorse disappears.
Line 3
九三 家人嗃嗃。悔厲吉。婦子嘻嘻。終吝。
Nine in the third place means: When tempers flare up in the family, Too great severity brings remorse. Good fortune nonetheless. When woman and child dally and laugh It leads in the end to humiliation.
Line 4
六四 富家大吉。
Six in the fourth place means: She is the treasure of the house. Great good fortune.
Line 5
九五 王假有家。勿恤吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: As a king he approaches his family. Fear not. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 有孚威如。終吉。
Nine at the top means: His work commands respect. In the end good fortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三穀不熟，民苦困極。駕之新邑，嘉樂有德。
Three harvests fail to ripen; the people suffer in dire extremity. They drive to a new settlement; joyful and virtuous is this place.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind from fire warms the hearth, but the harvest has failed three years running. The people suffer in extreme hardship, their provisions exhausted. Then the verse pivots: they are led to a new settlement, where joy and virtue await. The three failed harvests evoke the periodic crises that force communities to relocate — a pattern repeated throughout Chinese antiquity when drought or flood rendered land uninhabitable. The new settlement offers not just survival but moral renewal. From The Family to Enthusiasm, thunder bursts from the earth in a surge of collective energy. The former kings made music to honor heaven; here the suffering people find that same thunderous release in reaching a place where life can begin again. Hardship transmuted into joyful mobilization.
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