萃 → 豐
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Line 1
初六 有孚不終。乃亂乃萃。若號一握為笑。勿恤。往无咎。
Six at the beginning means: If you are sincere, but not to the end, There will sometimes be confusion, sometimes gathering together. If you call out, Then after one grasp of the hand you can laugh again. Regret not. Going is without blame.
Line 3
六三 萃如嗟如。无攸利。往无咎。小吝。
Six in the third place means: Gathering together amid sighs. Nothing that would further. Going is without blame. Slight humiliation.
Line 5
九五 萃有位。无咎匪孚。元永貞。悔亡。
Nine in the fifth place means: If in gathering together one has position, This brings no blame. If there are some who are not yet sincerely in the work, Sublime and enduring perseverance is needed. Then remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
褰衣出戶，心欲北走。王孫毋驚，使我長生。
Lifting his robes, he crosses the threshold; his heart desires to flee northward. 'Prince, be not alarmed'; he grants me long life.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to thunder and fire together, the overwhelming Abundance. Lifting one's robes, one steps out the door, heart set on fleeing north. 'Prince, do not be alarmed; this will grant me long life.' The verse captures a moment of crisis that resolves into reassurance. Someone prepares to flee in panic, but a voice intervenes: stay, this apparent danger is actually salvation. 'Wang Sun' (prince/young lord) is a common address in Chu literary tradition, recalling the songs of Chu where 'Wang Sun' is called to return from the wilderness. From Gathering to Abundance, the transformation is from fearful scattering to thunderous fullness. The initial impulse to flee is checked by the realization that the gathered forces, however frightening, are in fact protective.
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