姤 → 渙
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 59: Dispersion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
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 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
山險難登，澗中多石。車馳轊擊，重載傷軸。擔負善躓，跌踒右足。
Mountain steep, hard to climb; the ravine is full of stones. The cart races, hubs collide; the heavy load breaks the axle. The porter stumbles easily; he trips and injures his right foot.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven meets broken terrain. Mountains are steep and hard to climb, the ravine is full of stones. Carts race and collide hub against hub, heavy loads snap the axle. Porters carrying burdens on their backs stumble easily, twisting and injuring the right foot. Every image compounds the hazard: the mountain resists the climber, the stones wreck the cart, the load breaks the axle, the porter falls. From Coming to Meet to Dispersion, wind scatters across the water's surface, dissipating what was gathered. Gou's encounter with this terrain does not build but dismantles — each obstacle strips away another resource until the traveler is left broken on the mountainside.
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