謙 → 姤
Hexagram 15: Modesty → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 鳴謙。貞吉。
Six in the second place means: Modesty that comes to expression. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 4
六四 无不利撝謙。
Six in the fourth place means: Nothing that would not further modesty In movement.
Line 5
六五 不富以其鄰。利用侵伐。无不利。
Six in the fifth place means: No boasting of wealth before one's neighbor. It is favorable to attack with force. Nothing that would not further.
Line 6
上六 鳴謙。利用行師。征邑國。
Six at the top means: Modesty that comes to expression. It is favorable to set armies marching To chastise one's own city and one's country.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
山石朽弊，稍崩墜落；上下離心，君受其祟。
Mountain stones crumble and decay; gradually they collapse and fall. Above and below lose trust in each other; the lord suffers their curse.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth holds the mountain, but the mountain's stone has rotted and crumbled, gradually collapsing and falling away. Above and below lose their shared purpose, and the ruler suffers the curse. The imagery of decaying rock captures institutional erosion: the mountain that should anchor stability is disintegrating from within, and the fracture between ruler and ruled completes the collapse. From Modesty to Coming to Meet, heaven stands above wind — the ruler's command spreading across the four directions. Yet the verse reveals what happens when that command meets a fractured foundation: orders issued from above encounter no solid ground below. Coming to Meet warns against the yin force's unexpected intrusion; here, the rot was always present, merely hidden by the mountain's surface.
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