Six Doors · No. 55

第55卦丰 Fēng · Abundance

Essence: Zenith reached; enjoy it knowing it turns.

Judgment

This is the height of the season, the sun at exact noon. Do not sour it by grieving that noon cannot last—that only wastes the light. Instead, shine the way the midday sun shines: use the abundance fully, and use it now.

Sixty-four hexagrams, six doors each

Trigrams

Upper

震 Thunder

thunder

Lower

离 Fire

fire

III

The lines

Line 1Meeting a partner whose strength matches yours, stay paired even a full cycle—going forward together earns esteem.
Line 2The canopy grows so thick the Dipper shows at noon; pressing your case now breeds suspicion—only inner sincerity can open a way through.
Line 3The darkness deepens until you work as if with a broken right arm—incapacitated through no fault of your own.
Line 4Still under the thick canopy, you finally meet a leader who is your equal in insight—two lights joining, and fortune with them.
Line 5Drawing brilliant helpers to your side, the light gathers again, and with it come blessing and renown.
Line 6The house made grand while the family inside is screened from view—peer through the gate and no one is there for years: isolation at the summit of abundance, and it bodes ill.

All the doors

Every single-step transition available from where you stand.

Inverse (綜) · Opposite (錯)

Inverse (綜)

Opposite (錯)

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Hexagram 55, Fēng (Abundance): The Noon Sun and Its Shadow

A close reading of Hexagram 55, Fēng — the abundance of high noon: how fire under thunder builds the peak, what its six lines say, and how to read it when cast.

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