蒙 → 坤
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).
Line 2
九二 包蒙吉。納婦吉。子克家。
Nine in the second place means: To bear with fools in kindliness brings good fortune. To know how to take women Brings good fortune. The son is capable of taking charge of the household.
Line 6
上九 擊蒙。不利為寇。利禦寇。
Nine at the top means: In punishing folly It does not further one To commit transgressions. The only thing that furthers Is to prevent transgressions.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天之所有，禍不過家。左輔右弼，金玉滿堂。常盈不亡，富如敖倉。
What heaven possesses; disaster does not pass beyond the house. Left aide, right support; gold and jade fill the hall. Always brimming, never lost; rich as the granary of Ao.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring issues from beneath the mountain into a vision of heaven-blessed prosperity. What heaven bestows keeps misfortune from the household. Left and right counselors assist like pillars, gold and jade fill the hall, perpetually brimming without loss — rich as the great Ao Granary. The Ao Granary, built atop Mount Mang during the Qin dynasty, was the empire's chief storehouse, strategic enough to decide the Chu-Han wars. From Youthful Folly to the Receptive, the transformation reveals how unformed potential, when cradled by earth's boundless capacity, generates wealth that sustains rather than depletes. The mountain spring descends into the broad plain: ignorance does not diminish but opens into the vast receptivity that can hold all things.
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