豐 → 艮
Hexagram 55: Abundance → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
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 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 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
雞鳴同興，思邪无家。執佩持鳧，莫使致之。
At the cock's crow all rise together; thoughts go astray, no home to keep. Clutching the pendant, holding the carved duck, yet none can bring them to their place.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder and fire illuminate Abundance, and roosters crow at dawn as everyone rises together. But thoughts turn deviant, and the household is lost. One grasps jade pendants and holds wild ducks, yet cannot deliver them to their destination. The cock-crow assembly suggests a communal stirring at first light, but the 'deviant thoughts' (思邪) corrupt the gathering before it can bear fruit. The pendants and ducks — gifts of courtship or tribute — are held but never reach the intended recipient. From Abundance to Keeping Still, the doubled mountain: stillness should bring clarity, but here it brings paralysis. The gifts are frozen in transit, the mind is frozen in wrongful desire, and the dawn's promise congeals into inaction.
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