姤 → 歸妹
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 繫于金柅。貞吉。有攸往。見凶。羸豕孚蹢躅。
Six at the beginning means: It must be checked with a brake of bronze. Perseverance brings good fortune. If one lets it take its course, one experiences misfortune. Even a lean pig has it in him to rage around.
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 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.
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
將戌擊亥，陽藏不起。君子散亂，太山危殆。
Xu attacks Hai; the yang hides and will not rise. The noble men scatter in disarray; Mount Tai stands in peril.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven dissipates as yin overwhelms yang. 'Xu attacks hai' — the earthly branch xu (dog, yang earth) assaults hai (pig, yin water), marking the transition into deep yin territory in the calendrical cycle. Yang withdraws and cannot rise. The gentleman's order scatters into chaos, and even Mount Tai stands in peril. The imagery combines calendrical symbolism with political collapse: when the yang forces of governance retreat, even the most stable institution (Tai Shan, the Eastern Sacred Mountain) trembles. From Coming to Meet to the Marrying Maiden, thunder above the lake drives a maiden into an improper or subordinate marriage. Gou's fateful encounter precipitates a union that weakens rather than strengthens.
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