睽 → 姤
Hexagram 38: Opposition → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5).
Line 1
初九 悔亡。喪馬勿逐自復。見惡人。无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: Remorse disappears. If you lose your horse, do not run after it; It will come back of its own accord. When you see evil people, Guard yourself against mistakes.
Line 3
六三 見輿曳。其牛掣。其人天且劓。无初有終。
Six in the third place means: One sees the wagon dragged back, The oxen halted, A man's hair and nose cut off. Not a good beginning, but a good end.
Line 5
六五 悔亡。厥宗噬膚。往何咎。
Six in the fifth place means: Remorse disappears. The companion bites his way through the wrappings. If one goes to him, How could it be a mistake?
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
二人同室，兄弟合食。和樂相好，各得所敬。
Two people share a room; brothers eat together. Harmonious and joyful, caring for one another; each receives the other's respect.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire above the lake, estranged elements, yet two people share a single room. Brothers eat together at the same table, harmonious and joyful, each treating the other with genuine respect. The verse presents the simplest and most powerful antidote to Opposition: shared domesticity. No grand reconciliation, no cosmic realignment — just two people sitting down to a meal and choosing mutual regard. From Opposition to Coming to Meet, heaven spreads wind beneath it as the ruler issues commands to the four quarters. The transformation from fraternal intimacy to sovereign encounter suggests that the pattern of respectful meeting between unequal parties — host and guest, elder and younger, ruler and subject — begins at this most basic level: two brothers breaking bread.
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