豐 → 豫
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
Line 1
初九 遇其配主。雖旬无咎。往有尚。
Nine at the beginning means: When a man meets his destined ruler, They can be together ten days, And it is not a mistake. Going meets with recognition.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
病篤難醫，和不能治。命終期訖，下即蒿里。
The illness deepens beyond remedy; even harmony cannot heal. Life's term reaches its end; one descends to the graveyard of Haoli.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, yet the verse is starkly funereal. The illness is grave beyond cure; even harmonious remedies cannot heal. The mandate of life reaches its end, and the body descends to Haoli — the ancient burial ground of common folk, the land of the dead. Haoli (蒿里) was a hill near Mount Tai associated with the underworld in Han dynasty belief, where all souls gathered regardless of rank. The verse accepts mortality without evasion. From Abundance to Enthusiasm, thunder erupts from the earth: paradoxically, Enthusiasm's ancient function was ancestral sacrifice and music to honor the dead. The departed joins the ancestors, and ritual thunder transforms grief into communal reverence.
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