大過 → 姤
Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 6).
Line 6
上六 過涉滅頂。凶。无咎。
Six at the top means: One must go through the water. It goes over one's head. Misfortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
東鄉煩煩，相與笑言。子般鞭犖，圉人作患。
The eastern village bustles and hums; together they laugh and speak. Prince Ban whips the brindled bull; the groom brings calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake over wind yields to heaven above wind — Coming to Meet, the unexpected encounter. In the eastern village, people bustle merrily, laughing and chatting together. Then Prince Ban flogs the stableman Luo, and the groom becomes the source of disaster. According to the Zuo Zhuan, Prince Ban (子般) was the heir of Duke Zhuang of Lu. When Luo, a powerful stableman, behaved improperly, Ban had him whipped. Duke Zhuang warned that such a man should be killed outright or left alone — half-measures breed vengeance. After the Duke's death, Qingfu (庆父) sent the aggrieved Luo to assassinate Ban. From Great Exceeding to Coming to Meet, the uninvited encounter proves fatal. A chance meeting with an inferior force, handled with excess rather than decisiveness, returns as the instrument of murder.
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