艮 → 豫
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Line 3
九三 艮其限。列其夤。厲熏心。
Nine in the third place means: Keeping his hips still. Making his sacrum stiff. Dangerous. The heart suffocates.
Line 4
六四 艮其身。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Keeping his trunk still. No blame.
Line 6
上九 敦艮吉。
Nine at the top means: Noblehearted keeping still. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
公子王孫，把彈攝丸。發輒有獲，室家饒足。
Princes and noble sons, grasping slingshots and rolling pellets. Each shot finds its mark; the household enjoys abundance.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, yet young lords and princes take slingshots in hand, launching clay pellets at game. Every shot finds its mark; the household grows rich and well supplied. The image is of aristocratic ease: hunting not from necessity but from the confident surplus of privilege. From Keeping Still to Enthusiasm, mountain yields to thunder bursting from the earth, the explosive release of gathered energy. The mountain held the tension; now it erupts as joyous action. The slingshot's arc mirrors this dynamic — drawn back in stillness, then flung forward with precise abandon. Enthusiasm channeled through skill produces abundance, and the household feasts on what disciplined patience has stored.
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