漸 → 豫
Hexagram 53: Development → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 3
九三 鴻漸于陸。夫征不復。婦孕不育。凶。利禦寇。
Nine in the third place means: The wild goose gradually draws near the plateau. The man goes forth and does not return. The woman carries a child but does not bring it forth. Misfortune. It furthers one to fight off robbers.
Line 4
六四 鴻漸于木。或得其桷。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The wild goose goes gradually draws near the tree. Perhaps it will find a flat branch. No blame.
Line 5
九五 鴻漸于陵。婦三歲不孕。終莫之勝。吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: The wild goose gradually draws near the summit. For three years the woman has no child. In the end nothing can hinder her. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 鴻漸于陸。其羽可用為儀。吉。
Nine at the top means: The wild goose gradually draws near the clouds heights. Its feathers can be used for the sacred dance. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
盛中不絕，衰者復掇。盈滿減虧，瘯𤼠腯肥。鄭昭失國，重耳興立。
What flourishes does not last; what declines is gathered up again. Fullness wanes and empties; the wasted grow fat. Duke Zhao of Zheng lost the state; Chong'er arose and was established.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind over mountain gives way to thunder emerging from the earth: gradual development erupts into enthusiastic renewal. Fullness does not last forever; what declines is gathered up again. Abundance wanes and diminishes, yet the lean grow fat once more. Duke Zhao of Zheng lost his state, while Chong Er of Jin rose to establish his rule. The verse pairs two Spring and Autumn fates: Zheng Hu, the legitimate heir displaced by Song's interference, and Chong Er, the exile who wandered nineteen years before returning as hegemon. From Development to Enthusiasm, the slow turning of the wheel that the source hexagram tracks now breaks the surface with thunder's force. What was gradually declining reverses; what was gradually building erupts. Enthusiasm is the thunder that announces the new season.
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