剝 → 姤
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
Line 2
六二 剝牀以辨。蔑貞凶。
Six in the second place means: The bed is split at the edge. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Line 4
六四 剝牀以膚。凶。
Six in the fourth place means: The bed is split up to the skin. Misfortune.
Line 5
六五 貫魚。以宮人寵。无不利。
Six in the fifth place means: A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies. Everything acts to further.
Line 6
上九 碩果不食。君子得輿。小人剝廬。
Nine at the top means: There is a large fruit still uneaten. The superior man receives a carriage. The house of the inferior man is split apart.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
釋然遠咎，辟患害早。田獲三狐，以貝為寶。君子所在，安寧不殆。
Calmly leaving blame behind, avoiding trouble early. Hunting and catching three foxes; taking cowries as treasure. Where the noble man abides, there is peace without peril.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain upon earth strips away, and heaven spreads wind beneath — Coming to Meet, the yin principle rising from below. Calamity is released far away, and misfortune is averted early. In the hunt three foxes are caught, and cowrie shells become the treasure. Where the gentleman dwells, there is peace without danger. The verse reads as a catalog of prudent actions: releasing harm before it arrives, hunting down cunning threats, converting what is caught into wealth. The three foxes — symbols of deception and guile in the Yi — are trapped and neutralized. From Splitting Apart to Coming to Meet, the mountain's erosion opens the ground to wind's penetrating influence. Coming to Meet warns that when yin first appears, it must be recognized immediately. Here the gentleman does exactly that: he meets the threat early, eliminates the foxes, and secures his dwelling.
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