睽 → 豐
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
九二 遇主于巷。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: One meets his lord in a narrow street. No blame.
Line 3
六三 見輿曳。其牛掣。其人天且劓。无初有終。
Six in the third place means: One sees the wagon dragged back, The oxen halted, A man's hair and nose cut off. Not a good beginning, but a good end.
Line 6
上九 睽孤。見豕負塗。載鬼一車。先張之弧。後說之弧。匪寇婚媾。往遇雨則吉。
Nine at the top means: Isolated through opposition, One sees one's companion as a pig covered with dirt, As a wagon full of devils. First one draws a bow against him, then one lays the bow aside. He is not a robber; he will woo at the right time. As one goes, rain falls; then good fortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
喜來如雲，舉家蒙歡。眾才君子，駕福盈門。
Joy comes like clouds; the whole house is wrapped in delight. A multitude of talented gentlemen; driving blessings through the gate.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, and joy arrives like gathering clouds, enveloping the entire household in delight. Talented gentlemen of many abilities drive fortune right up to the gate — blessings so abundant they overflow the threshold. The verse radiates uncomplicated happiness: good people appear, the family celebrates, and prosperity arrives not through struggle but through the natural convergence of virtue and opportunity. There is no shadow in this poem, no hidden reversal. From Opposition to Abundance, thunder and lightning arrive together, and the gentleman renders judgments and executes punishment with decisive clarity. The transformation from communal joy to sovereign abundance reveals that when talented people gather around a worthy center, the resulting fullness carries with it the responsibility of clear governance — abundance must be administered, not merely enjoyed.
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