姤 → 姤
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation has no changing lines. Both hexagrams are identical.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
河伯大呼，津不可渡。往復爾故，乃无大悔。
The River Lord cries out in warning; the ford cannot be crossed. Going and returning to one's former way; thus there is no great regret.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven doubles upon itself — Gou encountering Gou. The Earl of the River bellows a great cry: the ford cannot be crossed! One goes back and forth, retracing old paths, and thereby avoids great regret. The river god Hebo's warning halts forward movement, and the traveler wisely retreats to familiar ground rather than forcing a dangerous crossing. When the same hexagram meets itself, the pattern reinforces rather than transforms: the encounter remains an encounter, permanently suspended. From Coming to Meet to Coming to Meet, the yin line that entered from below neither advances nor retreats but dwells at the threshold, eternally arriving, never fully arrived.
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