姤 → 大有
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 5).
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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
離床失案，龜喪其願。都市无會，叔季懷恨。
Leaving the bed, losing the desk; the tortoise forfeits its wish. The city market holds no gathering; the youngest brothers harbor resentment.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven topples what was secure. The bed is lost, the desk overturned; the tortoise oracle forfeits its wish. Markets in the capital hold no gatherings, and the younger generation harbors resentment. Every image speaks of disruption and unfulfilled expectation — furniture displaced, divination failed, commerce stalled, family bonds strained. From Coming to Meet to Great Possession, fire blazes above heaven in supreme brilliance, yet the verse inverts this radiance: what should be a grand meeting of abundant resources instead scatters and embitters. The encounter promised by Gou delivers disorder rather than union, and even the sacred turtle cannot divine a way forward.
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