姤 → 頤
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 27: Nourishment
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 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 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
智嵓絕理，陰孽謀生。十日不食，困於申亥。
Wisdom meets a sheer cliff, reason exhausted; dark forces plot to survive. Ten days without food; trapped in the hours of Shen and Hai.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven meets an impenetrable cliff face. Wisdom encounters a sheer rock wall where no path leads through; dark forces plot to survive at any cost. For ten days there is no food, and one is trapped between the earthly branches Shen and Hai — metal and water hours of the late afternoon and night, the time when yin energy is most dominant. The verse portrays intellectual brilliance checked by impossible circumstance, then besieged by yin conspiracies and starvation. From Coming to Meet to Nourishment, the mountain stands above thunder — nourishment requires careful speech and restrained appetite. The encounter plunges one into a crisis where the only sustenance is discipline itself.
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