姤 → 巽
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
九四 包无魚。起凶。
Nine in the fourth place means: No fish in the tank. This leads to misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
逐狐東山，水遏我前。深不可涉，失利後便。
Chasing a deer into the forest, vines tangle the feet. The deer calls from deep within; the hunter stands empty-handed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven doubles into the gentlest penetration. This verse is a rewrite; the original reads: 'Chasing a fox on the eastern mountain, water blocks my way ahead. Deep and unfordable, I lose the advantage and fall behind.' A hunter pursues quarry but the river cuts the chase short — the fox escapes because terrain intervenes. The encounter with prey is frustrated by natural barriers. From Coming to Meet to The Gentle, doubled wind whispers and infiltrates rather than confronts directly. The original verse's failed hunt resonates: brute pursuit fails where the wind hexagram counsels subtle, repeated penetration. The fox eludes the charging hunter but not the wind.
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