解 → 姤
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 5, 6).
Line 3
六三 負且乘。致寇至。貞吝。
Six in the third place means: If a man carries a burden on his back And nonetheless rides in a carriage, He thereby encourages robbers to draw near. Perseverance leads to humiliation.
Line 5
六五 君子維有解。吉。有孚于小人。
Six in the fifth place means: If only the superior man can deliver himself, It brings good fortune. Thus he proves to inferior men that he is in earnest.
Line 6
上六 公用射隼于高墉之上。獲之无不利。
Six at the top means: The prince shoots at a hawk on a high wall. He kills it. Everything serves to further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
王銑鐵頤，倉庫空虛。市賈無盈，與我為仇。
The kings iron chin is bare; storehouse and granary stand empty. The market yields no profit; fortune turns against us.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water meets heaven with wind below — the unexpected encounter of Coming to Meet. The king smelts iron for his jaw, yet the granaries stand empty. Merchants in the market find no profit, and all turns hostile. The verse describes an economy of scarcity: the ruler invests in military hardware (iron) while the food supply collapses and commerce withers. The 'iron jaw' may suggest a ruler who consumes resources meant for others. From Deliverance to Coming to Meet, wind beneath heaven carries decrees to the four directions, but what arrives unbidden here is shortage and enmity. Not every encounter is welcome; sometimes what meets you is ruin.
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