姤 → 蒙
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
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 4
九四 包无魚。起凶。
Nine in the fourth place means: No fish in the tank. This leads to misfortune.
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
躓跛未起，失利後市。
Stumbling and lame, unable to rise; losing profit at the late market.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven encounters an obstacle before it can rise. One stumbles and falls lame, unable to stand; by the time recovery comes, the market has closed and the profit is lost. The verse paints a scene of missed timing with ruthless economy — a merchant too slow to seize opportunity. No allusion adorns the image; it is pure oracular directness. From Coming to Meet to Youthful Folly, the mountain looming above the spring traps the water below in confusion. The encounter that Gou initiates cannot mature when one is unprepared: folly is not stupidity but arriving at the crossroads already crippled, unable to act on what one sees.
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