夬 → 豐
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Line 2
九二 惕號。莫夜有戎。勿恤。
Nine in the second place means: A cry of alarm. Arms at evening and at night. Fear nothing.
Line 5
九五 莧陸夬夬。中行无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: In dealing with weeds, Firm resolution is necessary. Walking in the middle Remains free of blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
醉臥道傍，迷旦失明，不全我生。
Drunk, lying by the roadside; confused past dawn, losing sight. One's life cannot be preserved.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake risen above heaven collapses into the thunder and fire of abundance. Drunk, one lies by the roadside, vision blurred as if dawn itself has been lost. 'Not completing my life' — this may end fatally. The drunkard sprawled in the road has surrendered all agency; he cannot see, cannot rise, and is exposed to every passing danger. From Breakthrough to Abundance, the combination should be magnificent — thunder and lightning together bring the fullness of power and clarity. But the verse shows abundance's shadow: excess leading to incapacitation. The one who overindulges in the feast of Abundance loses not just his way but his life. The cup that should celebrate plenitude becomes the instrument of self-destruction.
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