I Ching reading: Feng (Abundance) changing to Li (Clinging Fire)
Feng: Six at the top
The house is made grand and the household screened off. Peering through the door: silent, no one there. For three years no one is seen. Misfortune.
豐其屋，蔀其家，窺其戶，闃其无人，三歲不覿，凶。
止Hold back
Reading
Not now.This is the very height. Use it well, and know that what peaks will decline.
Governing text · Feng: Six at the top
In plain wordsThe house is built tall and grand, but it shuts your own home off completely. Peer in through the crack of the door and it is dead quiet, not a soul inside; for three years no one is seen. Misfortune. Greatness carried to the limit has locked you up in darkness instead.
- Now
- Greatness and fullness, like the sun at noon.
- The key
- Only one line is changing: Six at the top. The answer is in that line. This text describes a bad outcome. Carry on as you are and you will lose by it. Stop, step aside or change your approach. Do not force it.
- Where it is heading
- Things are moving toward Li (Clinging Fire): Attach yourself to the right people and things, and the light can last.
- What to do
- Do not worry; while it lasts, get things done openly and honorably. At the same time understand that once noon has passed the sun begins to slant. Do not mistake now for forever.
Read more closely
Which text applies
One changing line: read that line of the primary hexagram.
Your six throws, bottom to top: 1: 7 yang · 2: 8 yin · 3: 7 yang · 4: 7 yang · 5: 8 yin · 6: 6 yin (changing)
Line position
In its proper place · answered by the third line
Top place: the end of the matter. What reaches its limit turns. Know when to stop.
Verdict words in the text
Nuclear hexagram · Daguo (Great Excess)
The load is too heavy and the beam is already bent. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.
The nuclear hexagram is formed from the four inner lines. It shows what is going on inside the situation.
Full texts
One who truly knows the Changes does not need to divine. The text is for reflection; what you do is up to you.