豐 → 大有
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 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 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
宣房戶室，枯期除毒。文德淵府，害不能賊。
At Xuanfang's halls and chambers, the dry season purges poison. The treasury of civil virtue runs deep; harm cannot encroach.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire join in Abundance, and the verse invokes imperial flood control. 'Xuanfang' refers to the Xuanfang Palace built atop the levee after Emperor Wu of Han personally supervised the sealing of the Huzi breach on the Yellow River in 109 BC, ending over two decades of catastrophic flooding. The poisonous waters are drained and expelled from the chambers. Civil virtue serves as a deep reservoir, and harm cannot prevail. From Abundance to Great Possession, fire blazes above heaven: the transformation captures how a ruler's decisive action — sealing the breach, channeling the flood — converts destructive abundance into radiant possession. Virtue stored deep becomes the dam that no calamity can breach.
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