大有 → 姤
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
Line 1
初九 无交害。匪咎。艱則无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: No relationship with what is harmful; There is no blame in this. If one remains conscious of difficulty, One remains without blame.
Line 5
六五 厥孚交如。威如。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: He whose truth is accessible, yet dignified, Has good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
殊類異路，心不相慕；牝猭無猳，鰥無室家。
Different kinds, separate paths; hearts harbor no longing for each other. A sow without a boar; a widower without wife or home.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Different species, different paths — their hearts do not long for each other. The sow has no boar; the widower has no household. The verse presents a stark image of incompatibility and solitude: creatures of unlike kind cannot mate, and the absence of a proper partner leaves each one isolated. The language uses precise animal terminology to make the point visceral. From Great Possession to Coming to Meet, fire above heaven becomes heaven above wind — the unexpected encounter. Coming to Meet's hexagram shows a single yin line rising to meet five yang lines, and the verse inverts this promise: what should be the moment of meeting instead reveals that no match exists. The encounter fails because the natures are fundamentally incompatible, and loneliness persists.
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