姤 → 晉
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
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 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
販鼠賣卜，利少无謀，難以得家。
Peddling rats, selling divinations; profit is meager, plans come to nothing. Hard to make a home by such means.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven blows through a petty merchant's stall. Selling rats and peddling fortunes, the profit is meager and the plan nonexistent — hardly enough to establish a household. The verse paints a picture of marginal survival: the rat-seller and fortune-teller operate at the lowest rung of commerce, their trades yielding too little to build anything lasting. From Coming to Meet to Progress, fire rises above the earth as the sun emerges at dawn — yet the verse's subject cannot participate in this brightness. The encounter that Gou offers is squandered on trivial schemes. Progress requires vision and substance; petty commerce in dubious goods leads only to stagnation.
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