姤 → 旅
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 56: The Wanderer
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 5).
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 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
左手把水，右手把火。如光與鬼，不可得從。
Left hand grasping water, right hand grasping fire. Like light and ghosts together; one cannot follow both.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven places irreconcilable elements in the same hands. The left hand holds water while the right hand holds fire; like pursuing light alongside ghosts, one cannot follow both paths. The verse depicts an impossible situation — two mutually exclusive forces that the traveler tries to carry simultaneously. Water extinguishes fire; light banishes shadow. The attempt to maintain both produces paralysis. From Coming to Meet to The Wanderer, fire burns upon the mountain as the traveler moves through unfamiliar terrain. Gou's encounter here delivers contradiction rather than union: the meeting of incompatible forces produces not synthesis but bewildered wandering, unable to commit to either direction.
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