姤 → 蹇
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 39: Obstruction
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
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 4
九四 包无魚。起凶。
Nine in the fourth place means: No fish in the tank. This leads to misfortune.
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
新授大喜，福復重來。樂且日富，是惟豐財。
Newly bestowed, great joy; blessings return again and again. Delighted and daily richer; this is abundant wealth indeed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven delivers unexpected bounty. A new appointment brings great joy; blessings return doubled and redoubled. Each day grows more prosperous, and wealth accumulates abundantly. The verse is an unambiguous oracle of fortune — new honors, returning luck, increasing wealth, overflowing resources. No shadow complicates the picture. From Coming to Meet to Obstruction, water perches dangerously atop the mountain, and the gentleman must turn inward to cultivate virtue. Yet the verse ignores the difficulty implied by the target hexagram, perhaps suggesting that precisely in times of external obstruction, inner fortune can still multiply. The encounter that Gou arranges here arrives as pure gift.
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