豐 → 解
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
伯蹇叔瘖，莫與守株。失我衣裘，代爾陰鄉。
The elder brother lame, the younger mute; neither can stand guard by the stump. I have lost my fur coat, consigned to your cold and shadowed land.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire converge in Abundance, and the verse presents a pair of disabilities. 'Elder brother is lame; younger brother is mute' — between them, no one can guard even a tree stump. 'I lose my coat and furs, exchanged for your dark realm.' The lame and the mute together cannot accomplish even the simplest task — one cannot walk, the other cannot call for help. The 'tree stump' (守株) may echo the famous fable of the farmer who waited by a stump for another rabbit to crash into it, suggesting futile passivity. From Abundance to Deliverance, thunder and rain break the tension: the verse's stuck, helpless pair finds its resolution in Deliverance's release. What was locked in mutual incapacity dissolves as the storm clears the impasse.
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