姤 → 師
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 7: The Army
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
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.
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.
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
陳媯敬仲，示兆興姜。乃寓營丘，八世大昌。
Chen Gui Jingzhong revealed an omen to prosper the Jiang. He then sojourned at Yingqiu; for eight generations, great flourishing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven carries a fateful encounter across generations. Chen Jingzhong, a minister of the state of Chen, fled to Qi around 672 BC bearing an omen that his descendants would one day thrive through the Jiang clan. He settled at Yingqiu, the ancient Qi capital, and his lineage — the Tian family — prospered for eight generations until they formally replaced the Jiang rulers in 386 BC. The verse reads like a dynastic prophecy fulfilled: a chance refuge becomes the seedbed of revolution. From Coming to Meet to The Army, the encounter crystallizes into disciplined, organized power: earth contains water as a ruler contains his people, and what begins as one man's flight ends as a clan's marshaled conquest of an entire state.
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