姤 → 兌
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 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 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
水瀆魚室，來灌吾邑。衝沒我家，與狗俱遊。
The water channel becomes a fish pond; it floods and inundates my village. It submerges and drowns my home; I swim alongside the dog.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven releases the flood. Water breaches the drainage channel and the fish ponds, pouring in to inundate my settlement. It overwhelms my home, and I am left swimming alongside the dogs. The verse describes catastrophic flooding with vivid, darkly comic detail — the final image of a person paddling through floodwater beside household dogs captures total domestic destruction with unsentimental clarity. From Coming to Meet to The Joyous, doubled lakes join in mutual delight — yet here that doubling becomes a double dose of water destroying everything in its path. Gou's encounter with the flood element is uncontrollable: when the yin force (water) encounters no barrier, it transforms joy's lake into a sea of ruin.
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