Meaning
Fire below, thunder above: the storm at its height, flash and roll together. 豐 means full, abundant, plenty, and the tradition reads the hexagram as the peak of a cycle. The Judgment speaks to a king who has reached that point: progress and development, no cause for anxiety; "let him be as the sun at noon", in Legge's English. The commentaries draw out the double edge: the sun at noon is at its height, and from that moment it declines.
The Image reads the storm as judgement that is both clear and exact. In our own reading, 豐 is fullness as a moment rather than a state, a time to give light while there is light. The line texts, strangely, grow darker as they rise.
The lines
The first line meets its counterpart, two of the same kind, and is approved. In the second and fourth places screens are hung so thick that at midday one can see the stars of the Dipper; in the third a heavier screen still hides the sun until only a faint star shows. The fifth gathers people of brilliant ability around it, and there is praise. The top line has a great house and screens round its family, and peering through the door sees no one for three years.
Its pair is 旅, hexagram 56, the same figure upside down; within 豐 lies 大過, hexagram 28, and every line flipped gives 渙, hexagram 59.
In the birth cast
The time cast arrives at 豐 when the year, month and day leave 4 on eight, which puts 震 thunder above, and the same total with the hour added leaves 3, which puts 離 fire below. Which line moves depends on what the whole total leaves on six, and each line turns the figure into a different hexagram:
- Line 1 (初九) moving: becomes 62 小過 Xiǎo Guò, Small Excess
- Line 2 (六二) moving: becomes 34 大壯 Dà Zhuàng, Great Power
- Line 3 (九三) moving: becomes 51 震 Zhèn, Shock
- Line 4 (九四) moving: becomes 36 明夷 Míng Yí, Brightness Wounded
- Line 5 (六五) moving: becomes 49 革 Gé, Changing the Hide
- Line 6 (上六) moving: becomes 30 離 Lí, Brightness
Lines 2 to 5 give the hexagram within, 28 大過 Dà Guò, Great Excess. Everyone born in the same lunar day and double hour has the same cast, so the figure describes a moment, not a person.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Trigram virtues (Shuogua, chapter 7)
- 離 bright, attached below; 震 moving, startling above, in our English sourced
- Trigram family places (Shuogua)
- middle daughter below, eldest son above sourced
- Trigram body and animal images (Shuogua)
- eyes and pheasant below; feet and dragon above sourced
- Trigram phases (a classical correspondence: the Plum Blossom text's table)
- Fire below, Wood above. The Han assignment of 梅花易數, book 1, also used by Jing Fang; not stated as such in the Zhouyi sourced
- Inverse and opposite
- Upside down: 56 旅 Lǚ, The Traveller; every line flipped: 59 渙 Huàn, Scattering sourced
- Human Design gate
- Gate 55, from 330.125° to 335.75° of the tropical zodiac on Ra Uru Hu's wheel (1987): a modern placing, not the I Ching's sourced
- Our English title
- Fullness: EsoTerrier's own, from the sense of 豐 our construction
How the schools read it
- The Zhouyi, in Legge's translation (1882)
- “Let him be as the sun at noon.”
- The Image (大象), one of the Wings, in our paraphrase
- Thunder and lightning together; the superior man decides cases of litigation and apportions punishments exactly.
- The Plum Blossom method (Ming)
- A figure reached by numbers: 震 above when the year, month and day leave 4 on eight, 離 below when the same total with the hour leaves 3.
- Human Design (Ra Uru Hu, 1987)
- Takes the number for its gate 55 and puts it on the zodiac; its own reading, which we do not quote.
- EsoTerrier
- Thunder and lightning together: fullness at its height, like the sun at noon; not a time for sadness but for being like the noon sun, since what is full also begins to turn.
Claims about it
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Gate 55 of Human Design, at 330.125° to 335.75° of the zodiac, is where the I Ching itself places hexagram 55.
falseWhat the record shows: The wheel is Shao Yong's circle rotated by Ra Uru Hu in 1987 to 1989 so that hexagram 41 starts at 2° Aquarius. No Chinese source we found puts the hexagrams on degrees of the zodiac.
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Being born under 豐 Fēng fixes a person's character.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: A modern reading with no source in the tradition. The Zhouyi has no birth hexagram; the cast reads a figure, not a person, and everyone born in the same lunar day and double hour shares it.
