中孚 → 豫
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初九 虞吉。有他不燕。
Nine at the beginning means: Being prepared brings good fortune. If there are secret designs, it is disquieting.
Line 2
九二 鳴鶴在陰。其子和之。我有好爵。吾與爾靡之。
Nine in the second place means: A crane calling in the shade. Its young answers it. I have a good goblet. I will share it with you.
Line 4
六四 月幾望。馬匹亡。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The moon nearly at the full. The team horse goes astray. No blame.
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: He possesses truth, which links together. No blame.
Line 6
上九 翰音登于天。貞凶。
Nine at the top means: Cockcrow penetrating to heaven. Perseverance brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
周政養賤，背生人足。陸行不安，國危為患。
Zhou governance nurtures the base; feet grow from people's backs. Walking on land brings no peace; the state dangles in peril.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, but governance has been inverted. Zhou's administration nurtures the base while neglecting the noble; strange growths sprout — feet appear on the back. Travel by land becomes unsafe, and the state teeters in peril. The image of feet growing from one's back is a grotesque metaphor for political inversion: what should support from below has migrated to the wrong position, producing a creature that can neither stand nor walk properly. From Inner Truth to Enthusiasm, the lake's sincerity should awaken thunder erupting from the earth in joyous resonance. Yet when foundations are perverted, enthusiasm becomes dangerous excitement — thunder without direction, mobilization without order, the crowd's energy unleashed into a body that moves all wrong.
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