姤 → 訟
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 6: Conflict
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
雞鳴失時，民僑勞苦。厖吠有威，行者留止。
The rooster crows out of season; the people toil in exile. The shaggy dog barks with menace; travelers halt in their tracks.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven carries confused signals. The rooster crows out of season and the people wander in weary toil, while a shaggy hound barks with such menace that travelers halt in their tracks. When the cock fails its duty as timekeeper, the entire social rhythm breaks down; when a fierce dog guards the road, honest passage becomes impossible. The verse layers two images of disordered authority — the false signal and the illegitimate gatekeeper. From Coming to Meet to Conflict, heaven and water move in opposite directions: the encounter that Gou promised turns adversarial, producing disputes where there should have been cooperation. What was meant to be a meeting becomes a standoff.
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