姤 → 井
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 48: The Well
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 6).
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
先易後否，失我所市。騷蘇自苦，思吾故土。
Easy at first, then adverse; I lose what I came to trade. Troubled and bitter, suffering alone; I long for my native soil.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven shifts from fair to foul. What begins easily ends in denial; the market goods one sought are lost. Restless and self-tormenting, one pines for the homeland left behind. The verse traces a trajectory of commercial or personal migration gone wrong — initial ease gives way to failure, and the exile aches for home. 'Saosao' suggests agitated wandering, a mind that cannot settle. From Coming to Meet to The Well, water rises through wood from the depths: the well nourishes all who come but cannot be moved. The verse's homesickness resonates with the well's fixed nature — what sustains you is rooted in one place, and wandering away from it brings only thirst.
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