革 → 賁
Hexagram 49: Revolution → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
Line 4
九四 悔亡有孚。改命吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: Remorse disappears. Men believe him. Changing the form of government brings good fortune.
Line 5
九五 大人虎變。未占有孚。
Nine in the fifth place means: The great man changes like a tiger. Even before he questions the oracle He is believed.
Line 6
上六 君子豹變。小人革面。征凶。居貞吉。
Six at the top means: The superior man changes like a panther. The inferior man molts in the face. Starting brings misfortune. To remain persevering brings good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
亥午相錯，敗亂緒業，民不得作。
Hai and Wu clash in error; enterprises fail and fall to ruin. The people cannot carry out their work.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire within the lake yields to fire beneath the mountain — Grace, the hexagram of cultural adornment. Yet the Earthly Branches hai and wu clash in disastrous error, disrupting inherited enterprises, leaving the people unable to work their fields or tend their crafts. Hai (pig/water) and wu (horse/fire) stand in fundamental opposition: water extinguishes fire, and their collision symbolizes timing gone catastrophically wrong. The elegance that Grace promises is undermined when cosmic rhythms conflict. From Revolution to Grace, the transformation reveals that outward beauty cannot compensate for structural disharmony. When the calendar itself is in error, no amount of ornamentation can restore productive order.
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