姤 → 坎
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 29: The Abysmal Water
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
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 6
上九 姤其角。吝。无咎。
Nine at the top means: He comes to meet with his horns. Humiliation. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
昧暮乘車，以至伯家。踰梁渡河，濟脫无他。
At dim dusk, mounting the carriage, arriving at the elder's house. Crossing the bridge, fording the river; delivered safely, nothing amiss.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven hastens a traveler through twilight. At dusk one mounts a carriage and arrives at the elder's house, then crosses a bridge over the river and reaches safety without harm. The verse reads as a narrow escape narrative: traveling at the most dangerous hour, crossing water in darkness, yet emerging unscathed. From Coming to Meet to The Abysmal, doubled water presents peril upon peril — the river crossing is literal and symbolic. Yet the traveler succeeds precisely because the journey is purposeful and the destination clear. Gou's encounter with danger need not end in disaster when one moves with determination and knows where shelter lies.
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