姤 → 睽
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 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 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
持福厭患，去除天殘。日長夜盡，喜世蒙恩。
Grasping blessings, dispelling calamity; removing heaven's afflictions. Days lengthen, nights wane; the joyful age receives grace.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven sweeps away affliction and ushers in grace. One holds fast to blessings and expels calamity, removing heaven's cruelties. Days grow long and nights diminish — the solstice has turned, and yang reasserts itself. The world rejoices and receives benevolence. The verse tracks a decisive reversal: from suffering to relief, darkness to lengthening light, curse to blessing. From Coming to Meet to Opposition, fire blazes above the lake in seeming contradiction — yet the gentleman finds unity within difference. Gou's encounter with the foreign and threatening is here transmuted: what arrived as affliction is repurposed as medicine, and the opposition between day and night resolves in favor of the light.
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