姤 → 遯
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 33: Retreat
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
伯去我東，髮擾如蓬。寤寐長歎，展轉空床。內懷悵恨，摧我肝腸。
My lord has gone east from me; hair tangled like tumbling weeds. Waking or sleeping, I sigh long; tossing and turning on the empty bed. Within, I hold bitter grief; it breaks my very liver and bowels.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven carries a husband eastward, leaving only longing behind. 'My lord has gone east; my hair tangles like tumbled weeds.' Waking and sleeping, she sighs endlessly, tossing on an empty bed, harboring resentment that crushes liver and gut. The verse is a woman's lament of abandonment, raw and physical — disordered hair, sleepless nights, visceral pain. Every line deepens the desolation. From Coming to Meet to Retreat, heaven withdraws above the mountain: the masculine principle deliberately distances itself from the feminine. Gou's encounter is violently reversed — what met must now separate, and the one left behind has no agency but grief.
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