姤 → 剝
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
道理和德，仁不相賊。君子攸往，樂有利福。
The Way, principle, and virtue in harmony; benevolence does no injury. Where the noble man goes, there is joy, profit, and blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven carries the fragrance of virtue. The Way, moral principle, and benevolence do not harm one another but coexist in mutual support. Where the gentleman goes, there is joy and blessing. The verse is an unambiguous declaration of auspiciousness: when ethics align with circumstance, benefit flows naturally. No historical allusion complicates the image; it is direct oracular affirmation. From Coming to Meet to Splitting Apart, the mountain rests upon the earth — and though Splitting Apart often signals erosion, here the verse asserts the opposite: when dao and de are intact, even the hexagram of dissolution holds no threat. Moral integrity is the one foundation that stripping cannot reach.
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