姤 → 賁
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 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 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 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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
履機懼毀，身王子廢。終得所欲，无有凶害。
Treading the mechanism, fearing ruin; the prince's person is nearly discarded. In the end he gains what he desires; there is no misfortune or harm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven triggers a perilous mechanism. One treads upon a hidden device and fears destruction; a prince's body is nearly cast aside. Yet the verse pivots: 'In the end one obtains what is desired, and there is no misfortune.' The encounter with danger does not destroy but refines. The image of 'treading on a trigger and fearing ruin' may allude to a prince who faces deposition or mortal threat but ultimately survives and achieves his aim. From Coming to Meet to Grace, fire glows beneath the mountain — beauty emerges from constraint. The terrifying encounter of Gou is adorned and transformed: what nearly killed becomes the very trial that burnishes one's worth.
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