姤 → 否
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
九二 包有魚。无咎。不利賓。
Nine in the second place means: There is a fish in the tank. No blame. Does not further guests.
Line 3
九三 臀无膚。其行次且。厲。无大咎。
Nine in the third place means: There is no skin on his thighs, And walking comes hard. If one is mindful of the danger, No great mistake is made.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
水流趍下，遂成東海。求我所有，買鱣與鯉。
Small streams merge into rivers, rivers merge into the great river — never resting day or night, flowing east. Boats carry a thousand loads of fish and shrimp — the wharf is as noisy as a bustling market.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven encounters earth's stubborn closure. This verse is a rewrite; the original reads: 'Water flows downward, finally forming the eastern sea. Seek what I possess — buy sturgeon and carp.' Streams converge into rivers, rivers into the sea, following nature's inevitable course. The imagery is commercial abundance: one who possesses fish for sale meets eager buyers. Yet from Coming to Meet to Standstill, heaven and earth refuse to mingle. The natural flow described in the verse meets a cosmic blockage — abundance exists, but the channels of exchange are severed. What should circulate freely is trapped behind the wall of heaven's withdrawal from earth.
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