丰 Abundance
Upper trigram: Thunder (thunder) · Lower trigram: Fire (fire)
Peak fullness — act decisively while the light lasts.
Modern interpretation
You are at the peak: abundance is real, but peaks pass. Act decisively while the light is strongest, and quietly prepare for the waning that follows every zenith. Do not mourn the cycle — use it.
The Judgment · 卦辞
亨，王假之。勿忧，宜日中。
“Făng intimates progress and development When a king has reached the point (which the name denotes) there is no occasion to be anxious (through fear of a change). Let him be as the sun at noon.” — James Legge, The Yî King (1882)
The six lines · 爻辞
Read from the bottom line upward. Each line pairs the received Chinese text with Legge's English translation.
遇其配主，虽旬无咎，往有尚。
“The first line, undivided, shows its subject meeting with his mate. Though they are both of the same character, there will be no error. Advance will call forth approval.”
丰其蔀，日中见斗。往得疑疾，有孚发若，吉。
“The second line, divided, shows its subject surrounded by screens so large and thick that at midday he can see from them the constellation of the Bushel. If he go (and try to enlighten his ruler who is thus emblemed), he will make himself to be viewed with suspicion and dislike. Let him cherish his feeling of sincere devotion that he may thereby move (his ruler's mind), and there will be good fortune.”
丰其沛，日中见沫，折其右肱，无咎。
“The third line, undivided, shows its subject with an (additional) screen of a large and thick banner, through which at midday he can see (the small) Mei star. (In the darkness) he breaks his right arm ; but there will be no error.”
丰其蔀，日中见斗，遇其夷主，吉。
“The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject in a tent so large and thick that at midday he can see from it the constellation of the Bushel. But he meets with the subject of the (first) line, undivided like himself. There will be good fortune.”
来章有庆誉，吉。
“The fifth line, divided, shows its subject bringing around him the men of brilliant ability. There will be occasion for congratulation and praise. There will be good fortune.”
丰其屋，蔀其家，窥其户，阒其无人，三岁不觌，凶。
“The topmost line, divided, shows its subject with his house made large, but only serving as a screen to his household. When he looks at his door, it is still, and there is nobody about it. For three years no one is to be seen. There will be evil.”
About changing lines
In a real I Ching reading, hexagrams are built by casting coins or yarrow stalks six times, bottom line first. Some lines come out “old” (unstable) — an old yin or old yang flips into its opposite, producing a second hexagram that shows where the situation is heading. The changing lines are the moving parts of your answer: read their individual line statements above, and they point to the direction of change.
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