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Hexagram 55 of 64
Abundance
豐 · Fēng
Thunder and lightning together, movement and clarity at full strength. The hexagram is a peak, and the classic is honest that a peak is a moment rather than a state.
abundance
peak
clarity
the noonday sun
- King Wen number
- 55 of 64
- Above
- ☳ Zhèn · Thunder
- Below
- ☲ Lí · Fire
- Composition
- Thunder over Fire
- Lines, bottom to top
- Solid · broken · solid · solid · broken · broken
- Chinese
- 豐 · Fēng
The Judgment
Abundance brings success. The king attains it. Do not be sad; be like the sun at midday.
The instruction not to be sad is unusual. The classic knows the peak is passing and says to be fully in it anyway.
The Image
Thunder and lightning arrive together: Abundance. So the noble person decides lawsuits and carries out punishments.
Maximum clarity and maximum force at once. The classic assigns this rare combination to the work of judgement.
What it means
Feng is abundance at its height, thunder and lightning arriving together: full energy and full clarity in the same moment. The Judgment tells the king he has attained it, tells him not to be sad, and tells him to be like the sun at noon.
The instruction not to be sad is the interesting part. The classic knows perfectly well what follows noon, and its counsel is not to spend the peak mourning it. Be at the height while you are at the height.
The strangest feature of the hexagram is that four of its six lines describe darkness. Screens so thick that the polestars are visible at midday, undergrowth so dense that small stars appear. At the moment of greatest brightness something is blocking the light, which the commentaries read as the characteristic hazard of success: the more there is, the less you can see past it.
The top line is the failure. A house in full abundance, the family screened off, the gate looked through and nobody there, three years without seeing a soul. The classic's picture of wealth converted entirely into isolation, and the only misfortune in the hexagram.
In a reading
Abundance as an answer describes a peak: things at their fullest, and the moment not lasting indefinitely.
Its counsel is to be fully present in it rather than anxious about the decline, and to watch for what the brightness is hiding. The top line is the specific warning: do not let the abundance close you off from the people in it.
The six lines
Read a line's text only when the cast made it a moving line. They are listed from the top of the figure down, the way the hexagram is drawn.
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Six at the top
His house is in great abundance. He screens off his family. He peers through the gate and sees nobody. Three years without a sight of anyone. Misfortune.
Wealth turned into isolation. The house is full and there is nobody in it.
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Six in the fifth place
Brilliance is coming. Blessing and reputation approach. Good fortune.
The ruling line. Abundance received rather than seized.
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Nine in the fourth place
The screen is so thick that the polestars are seen at noon. He meets his ruler, who is of like kind. Good fortune.
The same eclipse as the second line, resolved by finding the right person in it.
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Nine in the third place
The undergrowth is so thick that small stars are seen at noon. He breaks his right arm. No blame.
Obscurity plus injury. The right arm is the one that acts, and the classic still assigns no blame.
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Six in the second place
The screen is so thick that the polestars can be seen at noon. Going out meets mistrust. Rouse him with truth. Good fortune.
Darkness at the height of the day. The remedy is not argument but sincerity.
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Nine at the beginning
Meeting the ruler who matches you. Ten days together and no mistake. Going brings recognition.
Two equals meeting. The text explicitly allows an extended stay without impropriety.
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