豐 → 无妄
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
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
三狸捕鼠，遮遏前後。死於環域，不得脫走。
Three wildcats hunt a rat, blocking it front and back. It dies within the encircling ground, unable to escape and flee.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire converge in Abundance, and three wildcats hunt a single rat. They block its path front and back; the rat dies within the encirclement, unable to escape. The image is swift and brutal: overwhelming force deployed against a small target with no exit. Three predators against one prey leaves no margin. The 'ring domain' (環域) from which the rat cannot flee suggests a deliberately constructed trap. From Abundance to Innocence, heaven's thunder moves through all things without delusion: the rat's fate resonates with Innocence's warning that disaster comes unexpectedly to the unguarded. When heaven's force descends, no amount of scurrying can evade it — the innocent accept what comes, while the guilty find every exit sealed.
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