豐 → 夬

Commentary

Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, and the verse is starkly brief. Illness at first, death at the end; the season brings funeral and mourning. No light is seen. Three short phrases trace an arc from sickness through terminal decline to darkness. There are no allusions, no historical figures — just the blunt trajectory of a life extinguished. The absence of light inverts Abundance's very name, for Feng means fullness and brightness. From Abundance to Breakthrough, the lake rises to heaven in decisive action: yet what breaks through here is death itself, cutting through the pretense of continued abundance. Breakthrough's courage to confront what must be confronted finds its darkest expression in this unflinching acknowledgment of the end.