解 → 豐
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Line 1
初六 无咎。
Six at the beginning means: Without blame.
Line 2
九二 田獲三狐。得黃矢。貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: One kills three foxes in the field And receives a yellow arrow. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 3
六三 負且乘。致寇至。貞吝。
Six in the third place means: If a man carries a burden on his back And nonetheless rides in a carriage, He thereby encourages robbers to draw near. Perseverance leads to humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
雷鼓東行，稼穡凋傷。大夫執政，君替其明。
Thunder drums eastward; grain and harvest wither and fall. The great minister seizes power; the lord is eclipsed in his radiance.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water thunders again beside fire — the overwhelming fullness of Abundance. Thunder drums eastward, but crops and harvests wither. A powerful minister seizes governance while the lord's brightness is eclipsed. The verse describes a political usurpation disguised by spectacle: the thunder of military display moves eastward, but agriculture — the true foundation — collapses. The minister who 'holds governance' has displaced the ruler's clarity. From Deliverance to Abundance, the release of energy produces excess rather than balance. Thunder and lightning blaze together, but when the minister eclipses the ruler, abundance becomes the darkness that follows a too-bright flash.
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