姤 → 萃
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 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 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
身无頭足，超蹠空乖。不能遠之，中道廢休，失利後時。
A body without head or feet; leaping far, missing the mark. Unable to go the distance, abandoning the endeavor midway; losing the advantage, too late.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven produces a body with neither head nor feet. One leaps and stumbles in vain discord, unable to travel far, abandoning the journey midway and missing the opportune moment. The image is grotesque: a torso without direction (no head) and without grounding (no feet), lurching through space in futile spasms. From Coming to Meet to Gathering, the lake upon the earth should pool resources and draw people together — yet this verse depicts the opposite: a figure too malformed to join any assembly. Gou's encounter yields a connection that cannot be sustained; the body politic lacks both leadership and foundation, and the gathering disperses before it forms.
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