坤 → 姤
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 直方大。不習无不利。
Six in the second place means: Straight, square, great. Without purpose, Yet nothing remains unfurthered.
Line 3
六三 含章可貞。或從王事。无成有終。
Six in the third place means: Hidden lines. One is able to remain persevering. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works, but bring to completion.
Line 4
六四 括囊。无咎无譽。
Six in the fourth place means: A tied-up sack. No blame, no praise.
Line 5
六五 黃裳。元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: A yellow lower garment brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上六 龍戰于野。其血玄黃。
Six at the top means: Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
孤獨特處，莫與為旅。身日勞苦，使布五谷，陰陽順序。
Alone and solitary, with no companion. The body toils daily, yet plants the five grains; yin and yang follow their proper order.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth upon earth transforms into heaven above wind — Coming to Meet. Alone and solitary, with no companion for the journey. The body labors daily in hardship, sowing the five grains, and yin and yang follow their proper sequence. Heaven above wind, the image of Gou, is the one yin line encountering five yang lines from below — the unexpected meeting. The verse describes a solitary farmer: isolated, exhausted, yet faithfully sowing. The five grains and the orderly sequence of yin and yang suggest that even in loneliness, adherence to natural rhythm produces results. From the Receptive to Coming to Meet, the earth's solitary labor eventually encounters heaven's responsive force. The meeting is not sought but earned through patient cultivation — Gou's encounter comes to the one who tends the soil.
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