姤 → 未濟
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 64: Before Completion
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 5).
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 5
九五 以杞包瓜。含章。有隕自天。
Nine in the fifth place means: A melon covered with willow leaves. Hidden lines. Then it drops down to one from heave.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
克身潔己，逢禹巡狩。錫我玄圭，拜受福祉。
Disciplining the self, purifying one's person; meeting Yu on his royal progress. He bestows upon me the dark jade tablet; I bow and receive this blessing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven conducts a royal audience. One disciplines the body and purifies the self, then encounters Yu the Great on his inspection tour of the realm. Yu bestows a dark jade tablet — the xuangui, symbol of the highest imperial favor — and one bows to receive this blessing. The encounter with Yu represents the meeting of personal moral cultivation with sovereign recognition: only one who has 'conquered the self and purified conduct' merits the sage-king's acknowledgment. From Coming to Meet to Before Completion, fire sits above water in a state not yet resolved. The dark jade is received, yet the journey is unfinished: Gou's most exalted encounter points forward, promising what is earned but not yet fully realized.
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