姤 → 恆
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
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.
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
霧露雪霜，日暗不明。陰孽生疾，年穀大傷。
Fog and dew, snow and frost; the sun dims and gives no light. Dark forces breed sickness; the year's harvest suffers great ruin.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven turns to fog and frost. Mist, dew, snow, and frost smother the sky, and the sun grows dark. Yin-born pestilence breeds sickness, and the year's harvest suffers grievous damage. The verse is a catalog of yin excess smothering yang vitality — moisture obscuring light, cold killing crops, hidden corruption generating disease. From Coming to Meet to Duration, thunder and wind persist together in their established pattern. Yet here duration becomes entrenchment: the yin force that Gou admitted does not depart but settles in permanently, like fog that refuses to lift. What was a passing encounter calcifies into chronic affliction, and the harvest rots under an unchanging gray sky.
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