豐 → 睽
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 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
絕世遊魂，福祿不存。精神渙散，離其躬身。
A wandering soul cut off from the world; blessings and fortune exist no more. Spirit and essence scattered and dispersed, departing from its very body.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire converge in Abundance, and the verse speaks of spiritual dissolution. The wandering soul of one cut off from the world — blessings and fortune no longer exist. The vital spirit scatters and disperses, departing from the body itself. This is not merely death but the disintegration of the animating principle. The 'world-severed wandering soul' (絕世遊魂) suggests someone whose ties to both the living and the ancestral realm have been utterly severed. From Abundance to Opposition, fire above and lake below pull apart: the hexagram of estrangement mirrors the soul's dispersal. What should be unified — body and spirit, fortune and person — splits irreconcilably, each element drifting in its own direction like fire rising while water sinks.
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