Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Profusion and abundance reaching culmination. Exuberantly increasing things to their fullest.
Spread the wealth to all. Keep your focus. Use severe measures to correct wrongdoing. Beware of melancholy, doubt and negativity. Be positive even when you do not feel like it. Take chances on the new and offbeat.
Richard Wilhelm
##### Symbolic
Chên is movement; Li is flame, whose attribute is clarity. Clarity within, movement without-this produces greatness and abundance. The hexagram pictures a period of advanced civilization. However, the fact that development has reached a peak suggests that this extraordinary condition of abundance cannot be maintained permanently.
##### Judgment
ABUNDANCE has success.
The king attains abundance.
Be not sad.
Be like the sun at midday.
##### Judgment Comments
It is not given to every mortal to bring about a time of outstanding greatness and abundance. Only a born ruler of men is able to do it, because his will is directed to what is great. Such a time of abundance is usually brief. Therefore a sage might well feel sad in view of the decline that must follow. But such sadness foes not befit him. Only a man who is inwardly free of sorrow and care can lead in a time of abundance. He must be like the sun at midday, illuminating and gladdening everything under heaven.
##### Image
Both thunder and lightning come:
The image of ABUNDANCE.
Thus the superior man decides lawsuits
And carries out punishments.
##### Image Comments
This hexagram has a certain connection with Shih Ho, BITING THROUGH 21, in which thunder and lightning similarly appear together, but in the reverse order. In BITING THROUGH, laws are laid down; here they are applied and enforced. Clarity [Li] within makes it possible to investigate the facts exactly, and shock [Chên] without ensures a strict and precise carrying out of punishments.
