姤 → 坤
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 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 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
東山西山，各自止安。心雖相望，意不同堂。
East mountain, west mountain; each rests in its own place. Hearts gaze toward one another, yet thoughts dwell not in the same hall.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven carries proclamations far, yet mountains on opposite horizons remain forever apart. East Mountain and West Mountain each stand in their own stillness, and though hearts gaze toward one another across the distance, minds never share the same hall. The verse captures the ache of separation without hostility — not conflict, but irreconcilable distance. From Coming to Meet to the Receptive, the transformation reveals how an encounter dissolves into pure yielding earth: what began as heaven's wind reaching downward meets only the vast, passive expanse of earth that absorbs everything yet returns nothing. Longing persists, but no bridge forms between the two peaks.
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