萃 → 姤
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 6).
Line 2
六二 引吉无咎。孚乃利用禴。
Six in the second place means: Letting oneself be drawn Brings good fortune and remains blameless. If one is sincere, It furthers one to bring even a small offering.
Line 3
六三 萃如嗟如。无攸利。往无咎。小吝。
Six in the third place means: Gathering together amid sighs. Nothing that would further. Going is without blame. Slight humiliation.
Line 6
上六 齎咨涕洟。无咎。
Six at the top means: Lamenting and sighing, floods of tears. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
種一得十，日益有息。仁政獲民，四國睦親。
Plant one, harvest ten; daily increasing with gain. Benevolent governance wins the people; the four states dwell in friendly kinship.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to heaven beneath wind, the unexpected Coming to Meet. Plant one seed, harvest ten; daily the return increases. Benevolent governance wins the people, and four neighboring states become close kin. The verse celebrates the multiplier effect of virtuous rule: small inputs yield exponential returns, and moral authority radiates outward to bring distant peoples into friendly alliance. The 'four states becoming kin' echoes the Confucian ideal of extending family bonds into political harmony. From Gathering to Coming to Meet, the transformation is natural attraction: wind beneath heaven spreads the sovereign's proclamation to all directions. What was gathered through effort now comes of its own accord, as benevolence creates the conditions for encounter rather than forcing it.
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