姤 → 艮
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
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 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
西山東山，各自止安。心雖相望，竟未上堂。
West mountain, east mountain; each rests in its own place. Hearts gaze toward one another, yet in the end none ascends the hall.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven subsides into mountain stillness. West Mountain and East Mountain each stand in their own calm, and though hearts gaze toward one another, none ever enters the other's hall. This verse nearly mirrors 44-2 (the Kun transformation), substituting 'West Mountain, East Mountain' for 'East Mountain, West Mountain' and 'never ascended the hall' for 'minds not sharing the same hall.' The symmetry is deliberate: both verses describe longing across impassable distance. From Coming to Meet to Keeping Still, the doubled mountain forbids movement entirely. Where 44-2 dissolved into earth's passive receptivity, here the separation calcifies into stone — not yielding but immovable, each peak frozen in permanent isolation.
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