姤 → 離
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 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 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
吾有黍粱，委積外塲。有用服箱，運致我藏，富於喜糧。
I have millet and grain, heaped high in the outer yard. With cart and oxen to haul it, I carry it into my stores, rich in joyful provisions.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven brings harvest home. 'I possess millet and grain, heaped in the outer threshing ground.' Oxen yoked to carts carry the bounty to my storehouse, enriching it with joyful provisions. The verse is a celebration of agricultural abundance in its most tangible form — grain piled high, carts groaning under loads, the storehouse filling. 'Yoked to the cart' may echo the Shijing ode 'Da Dong' where the Cowherd star is described as unable to pull a load, but here the image is inverted: these oxen serve their purpose perfectly. From Coming to Meet to The Clinging, doubled fire illuminates the harvest. Gou's encounter produces not mere meeting but radiant, sustaining wealth.
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