Abundance
Judgment
— I Ching · classical
亨，王假之，勿忧，宜日中。
This abundance brings success; the king rises to meet it fully. Set worry aside, and act as boldly as the sun stands at high noon.
Image
— Great Image
雷电皆至，丰，君子以折狱致刑。
Thunder and lightning arrive together: this is the image of Abundance. Watching this, a person of real judgment settles disputes and carries out real consequences without delay.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Peak of enterprise development — also the inflection where bureaucratism, executive infighting, and 'leader-shielded-by-PPT' (line 2: see stars at noon) begin. Break the bubble with third-party audit; maintain radical transparency.
Psychology & Cognition
Guard against inflation. When everyone around you is praising, when you feel invincible, you are already at line 6 (the screened mansion). Maintain beginner's mind.
Decision Guidance
Be the sun at midday — illuminating, not blinding. Bring in talent (line 5: lai zhang); pierce the screen of advisers.
Integrated Reading
— Structure · timing · relations
Abundance places The Arousing / Thunder above The Clinging / Fire. Read the lower trigram as the emerging ground and the upper trigram as the field, pressure, or constraint it must answer. The core theme is Abundance · Sun at noon · Decline begins at the peak. Relations: the opposite hexagram shows the shadow/complement (Dispersion); the inverse shows the other-side view (The Wanderer); the nuclear hexagram shows the hidden internal mechanism (Preponderance of the Great).
Line Path
Line path: Initial Nine → Six in the second → Nine in the third → Nine in the fourth → Six in the fifth → Six at the top. Read from bottom to top to see how the situation emerges, develops, crosses thresholds, and resolves.
Reflection Prompt
Am I acting from the proper position of Abundance, or am I being pulled by losing clarity in abundance? What is the smallest reversible next move that respects the timing?
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
Andy Grove's 'only the paranoid survive' at peak; the Roman triumph reminder 'memento mori'; Jim Collins on 'How the Mighty Fall' Stage 1 (hubris from success); Daniel Kahneman's WYSIATI (what you see is all there is) — the leader's blind spot.
· English renderings and modern readings are original editorial writing, cross-checked against public-domain and classical commentary lineages.
· Hexagram Cast does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· Modern inputs are reproducible; traditional casts can be audited line by line from the stored coin/yarrow trace.