豐 → 履
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 豐其蔀。日中見斗。往得疑疾。有孚發若。吉。
Six in the second place means: The curtain is of such fullness That the polestars can be seen at noon. Through going one meets with mistrust and hate. If one rouses him through truth, Good fortune comes.
Line 3
九三 豐其沛。日中見沬。折其右肱。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: The underbrush is of such abundance That the small stars can be seen at noon. He breaks his right arm. No blame.
Line 5
六五 來章。有慶譽吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Lines are coming, Blessing and fame draw near. Good fortune.
Line 6
上六 豐其屋。蔀其家。闚其戶。闃其无人。三歲不覿。凶。
Six at the top means: His house is in a state of abundance. He screens off his family. He peers through the gate And no longer perceives anyone. For three years he sees nothing. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天命絕後，孤傷无主。彷徨兩社，獨不得酒。
Heaven's decree severs posterity; alone, wounded, without a master. Wandering between the two village shrines, alone and denied even wine.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, yet the verse speaks of utter desolation. Heaven's mandate is severed; no heir remains. Alone, wounded, without a master, one wanders between two altars of earth and cannot even obtain wine for libation. The 'two altars' (兩社) represent the state sacrificial grounds — a wanderer between them belongs to neither community. Without lineage, without wine, without a place to pour offerings, one is cut off from both the living and the ancestors. From Abundance to Treading, heaven above the lake demands proper conduct: the transformation from fullness to precarious stepping reveals how catastrophic it is when abundance produces no succession, leaving only a solitary figure treading dangerously without support.
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