小過 → 豐

Commentary

Thunder rumbles above the mountain, but the imagery is unsettling: a turned-up nose and a forked head, and three widows dwelling alone. The verse is cryptic and ominous. The 'reversed nose and forked head' (反鼻岐頭) may describe a serpent — the viper's upturned snout is a standard marker in Chinese natural history — or a deformed omen-creature. The three widows living in solitude suggest a household where all male protectors have perished, leaving only isolated survivors. From Small Exceeding to Abundance, the mountain's thunder becomes thunder and lightning striking together — overwhelming brilliance and power. But the verse inverts Abundance's promise: where there should be plenitude, there is only deformity and bereavement. The thunder and fire illuminate what no one wishes to see.