大畜 → 姤

Commentary

Heaven stored within the mountain yields to heaven with wind below — Coming to Meet. Cold and heat push one another forward, one bright, one dim. The illustrious house of Zhou shone gloriously, then dimmed and declined. The verse traces the natural rhythm of cyclical rise and fall through the metaphor of seasonal alternation. The Western Zhou, once the pinnacle of civilized rule, eventually exhausted its mandate. From Great Taming to Coming to Meet, the mountain's stored heaven encounters the wind that arrives uninvited from below — the yin force that meets the yang unexpectedly. Great dynasties are not conquered but met by the inevitable return of what they suppressed. Stored glory dims not through enemy action but through the cosmic rhythm of alternation itself.