豐 → 需
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 5: Waiting
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
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 4
九四 豐其蔀。日中見斗。遇其夷主。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: The curtain is of such fullness That the polestars can be seen at noon. He meets his ruler, who is of like kind. Good fortune.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三龍北行，道逢六狼。暮宿中澤，為禍所傷。
Three dragons travel north; on the road they meet six wolves. Lodging at dusk in the central marsh, they are wounded by calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, but the verse turns ominous. Three dragons journey northward and encounter six wolves on the road. At dusk they shelter in the middle of a marsh, where disaster strikes. Dragons symbolize the noble and powerful, yet even dragons are vulnerable when they stray into hostile territory at the wrong hour. The marsh at nightfall is a place of concealment and ambush. Six wolves against three dragons: numbers and terrain conspire against the travelers. From Abundance to Waiting, clouds gather over heaven but the danger has not yet broken: the dragons' misfortune resonates with those who venture into peril without patience, confronting hazards that demand stillness rather than advance.
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