姤 → 中孚
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4).
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 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
執熱爛手，火為災咎。公孫无賴，敗我玉寶。
Grasping what is hot, the hands burn; fire is the source of calamity. The reckless lord has no scruples; he destroys my precious jade.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven delivers scorching misfortune. Grasping at hot things sears the hands; fire becomes the agent of disaster. A Gongsun — a nobleman without scruples — proves utterly unreliable, destroying my precious jade. The verse pairs physical burning with moral betrayal: fire injures the body, while a treacherous associate ruins one's treasures. 'Gongsun wulai' literally means 'Gongsun the rogue,' naming a class of aristocratic swindlers. From Coming to Meet to Inner Truth, wind stirs above the lake as the gentleman deliberates matters of justice and mercy. The encounter that Gou delivers here is with false trust: the inner truth of Zhongfu is violated by a person who looks trustworthy but burns everything he touches.
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