姤 → 豫
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5, 6).
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.
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
躄屈復伸，本乘浮雲，貴寵毋前。
The crippled one bends, then stretches again; rising at last to ride the drifting clouds. Honor and favor lie no further ahead.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven bends low and then springs back. The crippled leg straightens and extends again; what was earthbound now rides the floating clouds. Yet the verse counsels restraint: 'Do not press your favor forward.' One who has been bent by misfortune and now soars must remember that the clouds are borrowed, not owned. From Coming to Meet to Enthusiasm, thunder erupts from the earth in exuberant release — the energy that was compressed now bursts forth. But Gou's warning persists: the yin line's encounter with power is intoxicating, and enthusiasm unchecked by prudence becomes recklessness. Rise, but do not overreach.
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