姤 → 泰
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 繫于金柅。貞吉。有攸往。見凶。羸豕孚蹢躅。
Six at the beginning means: It must be checked with a brake of bronze. Perseverance brings good fortune. If one lets it take its course, one experiences misfortune. Even a lean pig has it in him to rage around.
Line 4
九四 包无魚。起凶。
Nine in the fourth place means: No fish in the tank. This leads to misfortune.
Line 5
九五 以杞包瓜。含章。有隕自天。
Nine in the fifth place means: A melon covered with willow leaves. Hidden lines. Then it drops down to one from heave.
Line 6
上九 姤其角。吝。无咎。
Nine at the top means: He comes to meet with his horns. Humiliation. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
凶憂災殃，日益章明。禍不可救，三郤夷傷。
Dire woe and calamity grow clearer by the day. Disaster cannot be averted; the three Xi are slain and ruined.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven carries not glad tidings but gathering calamity. Misfortune and disaster grow more visible day by day, and the ruin proves beyond rescue. The verse names the Three Xi — three powerful ministers of the Xi clan in Jin whose combined wealth rivaled the ducal treasury and whose military power equaled half the state's armies. Their unchecked arrogance provoked Duke Li of Jin to orchestrate their assassination around 573 BC. From Coming to Meet to Peace, earth and heaven exchange places in seeming harmony, yet the verse inverts this: what appears to be a smooth encounter conceals a lethal power imbalance. The Three Xi met their ruler's hospitality and found only slaughter.
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