巽 → 豫
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
九二 巽在牀下。用史巫。紛若。吉。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: Penetration under the bed. Priests and magicians are used in great number. Good fortune. No blame.
Line 3
九三 頻巽吝。
Nine in the third place means: Repeated penetration. Humiliation.
Line 4
六四 悔亡。田獲三品。
Six in the fourth place means: Remorse vanishes. During the hunt Three kinds of game are caught.
Line 5
九五 貞吉悔亡。无不利。无初有終。先庚三日。後庚三日。吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes. Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end. Before the change, three days. After the change, three days. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 巽在牀下。喪其資斧。貞凶。
Nine at the top means: Penetration under the bed. He loses his property and his ax. Perseverance brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
黃鳥採蓄，既稼不荅。念吾父兄，思復邦國。
The yellow bird gathers and stores; crops planted but not tended. I think of my father and brothers; I long to return to my homeland.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into thunder over earth: the Gentle becomes Enthusiasm. The yellow bird gathers and stores, yet after sowing the crops yield nothing. One thinks of father and elder brother, longing to restore the homeland. The verse draws on the Shijing 'Yellow Bird' exile tradition — the stranger in a hostile land who labors without reward and yearns for home. Gathering provisions like a bird yet reaping no harvest, the exile's work is futile. From The Gentle to Enthusiasm, thunder bursts from the earth as the ancient kings made music to honor virtue. The longing to restore one's nation channels grief into the thunderous resolve that precedes restoration — enthusiasm born not from joy but from the fierce love of what was lost.
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