姤 → 小畜
Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet → Hexagram 9: Small Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 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 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
言无約結，不成契劵。殷叔季女，公孫爭之，強入委禽，不悅於心，乃適子南。
Words without binding agreement form no contract. The youngest daughter of Yin; the lords contend for her. Forcing entry with betrothal geese, she is not pleased at heart, and so weds the son of Nan.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind beneath heaven stirs a tangled courtship. Words spoken lack binding force and no contract is sealed. The verse alludes to a Spring and Autumn succession dispute: a daughter of the Yin clan's junior branch is fought over by nobles; one forces the betrothal gifts upon her household, but her heart is unwilling, and she ultimately goes to Zinan instead. The story, recorded in the Zuo Zhuan, illustrates how coerced unions breed only resentment. From Coming to Meet to Small Taming, wind rides above heaven — gentle restraint over great force. Yet here the restraint fails: what should have been a cultivated courtship degenerates into an abduction that the weak wind of propriety cannot contain.
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