姤 → 觀
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 20: Contemplation
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
三䖝作蠱，踐跡无與。勝母盜泉，君子不處。
Three insects breed poison; one treads the path but finds no companion. Sheng Mu, Dao Quan: the noble man does not dwell there.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven reveals corruption beneath the surface. Three venomous creatures breed gu-poison, and the path one walks leaves no worthy companions. The verse then invokes a famous double allusion: a gentleman will not enter a hamlet called 'Overcoming-Mother' nor drink from a spring called 'Robber's Spring' — places whose inauspicious names alone are enough to repel the virtuous. The pairing of gu-sorcery with the Shengmu-Daoquan allusion warns that certain encounters are contaminated at the root: no good can come from association with them. From Coming to Meet to Contemplation, wind moves across the earth observing all: the sage surveys the moral landscape and knows which paths to avoid entirely.
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