否 → 姤
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
六二 包承。小人吉。大人否。亨。
Six in the second place means: They bear and endure; This means good fortune for inferior people. The standstill serves to help the great man to attain success.
Line 3
六三 包羞。
Six in the third place means: They bear shame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三年生駒，以戌為母；荊夷上侵，姬伯出走。
Three years to rear a colt; the dog is taken as its mother. The barbarians of Jing invade from above; the Ji lord flees.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and earth stand apart as a three-year colt is raised by a dog as its mother — an unnatural pairing. Then the Jing-Yi barbarians press northward, and the lord of the Ji clan flees. The colt nursed by a dog suggests a creature raised under false guidance, growing strong but wrongly formed. From Standstill to Coming to Meet, Pi's stagnation opens into heaven above wind — the unexpected encounter, the dark force rising from below. Gou warns of a strong yin element meeting five yang lines: an encounter with something dangerous disguised as innocuous. The barbarian invasion and the flight of the Ji lord give political flesh to this warning: what was nurtured incorrectly produces chaos, and the legitimate ruler is displaced by forces that approach from the margins.
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