姤 → 大畜
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
騏驥晚乳，不知子處。旋動悲鳴，痛傷我心。
The fine steed foals late and knows not where her young one lies. She turns and cries in grief; the pain wounds my heart.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven carries a mare's anguished cry. A fine thoroughbred foals late in life and cannot find where her offspring has gone. She turns and paces, whinnying in grief, and the sorrow pierces the speaker's heart. The image of a mother horse searching for a lost foal is devastatingly direct — no political allegory, just raw parental anguish. From Coming to Meet to Great Taming, heaven stored within the mountain suggests accumulated strength held in reserve. Yet here the taming energy is inverted: what the mountain contains is not power but pain, a mother's love with nowhere to go. The encounter that Gou promised — the meeting of mare and foal — never materializes.
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