Hexagram 55 · Lower canon
Feng · Abundance
At its brightest, see what is there to see.
The figure
- Number
- 55 (Lower canon)
- Upper trigram
- Thunder (Zhen)
- Lower trigram
- Fire (Li)
- Keywords
- abundance · light · seeing clearly
- Reversed hexagram
- Huan · Dispersal
- Inverted hexagram
- Lu · The Wanderer
The meaning
What the name means Feng is abundance, fullness, greatness.
The picture Thunder and lightning arriving together, bright and loud, flourishing for a while.
The sense of the whole The whole hexagram is about the time of fullness. The fuller it gets, the more you should remember that the sun at noon starts to lean. Use the light to decide and to act, not only for noise and show.
In plain words: what this hexagram says
At the fullest, like the sun at noon. Use the light to see what needs seeing, and remember that after the peak comes change.
The upper trigram is Thunder and the lower is Fire: Thunder above, Fire below. When you read it, first picture the two together as a scene, then set it against the original below. The plain words speak only of stance and do not foretell.
The judgement
亨，王假之，勿憂，宜日中。
The image
雷電皆至，豐；君子以折獄致刑。
The six lines
From the bottom up, the first line is the lowest. When you cast this hexagram and a line is changing, read the matching one. The original is classical Chinese.
- 初九遇其配主，雖旬無咎，往有尚。
- 六二豐其蔀，日中見鬥，往得疑疾，有孚發若，吉。
- 九三豐其沛，日中見沫，折其右肱，無咎。
- 九四豐其蔀，日中見鬥，遇其夷主，吉。
- 六五來章，有慶譽，吉。
- 上六豐其屋，蔀其家，窺其戶，闃其無人，三歲不覿，兇。
To learn how to read a hexagram, see "How to read a hexagram"; for changing lines, see "Changing lines and the resulting hexagram".