兌 → 豫
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5).
Line 1
初九 和兌吉。
Nine at the beginning means: Contented joyousness. Good fortune.
Line 2
九二 孚兌吉。悔亡。
Nine in the second place means: Sincere joyousness. Good fortune. Remorse disappears.
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
東行求玉，反得弊石。名曰无直，字曰醜惡。眾所賤薄。
Traveling east to seek jade, instead obtaining only broken stones. Named 'without worth,' called 'ugly and vile'; despised and disdained by all.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes flash with expectation as one journeys east seeking jade, only to return clutching a worthless stone. It is named 'without value,' styled 'ugly and vile,' despised and scorned by all who see it. Thunder rising from the earth should bring enthusiasm, but here the thunder is hollow — sound without substance. From The Joyous to Enthusiasm, the verse inverts the hexagram's energy: what should be the exhilarating discovery of treasure becomes a humiliating fraud. The seeker's joy collapses the instant the stone is tested against real value. Enthusiasm misdirected — pursuing worth in the wrong place — yields only shame and ridicule. True treasure is never found by chasing rumor eastward; the sage-kings made music to honor virtue, not to chase after glittering stones.
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