鼎 → 姤
Hexagram 50: The Cauldron → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 5).
Line 5
六五 鼎黃耳金鉉。利貞。
Six in the fifth place means: The ting has yellow handles, golden carrying rings. Perseverance furthers.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
砥德礪材，果當成周。拜受大命，封為齊侯。
Polishing the sword for ten years, the edge untested — one morning it is drawn and cold light blazes. Before the golden palace steps, receiving the imperial decree — the purple robe is placed on one's shoulders, known to all under heaven.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire over wind fills the cauldron; heaven extends its decree through wind beneath in Coming to Meet. The original verse reads: 'Grinding virtue and honing talent, he proved worthy to complete Zhou's mandate. Receiving the great command in audience, he was enfeoffed as Marquis of Qi.' This is Taigong (Jiang Ziya), the fisherman-sage whom King Wen discovered by the Wei River. After decades of obscurity, his moment arrived: he received Zhou's mandate and was granted the fief of Qi. From The Cauldron to Coming to Meet, the unexpected encounter transforms everything. Wind stirs beneath heaven — the decree reaches those it was destined for. The cauldron's long refinement of character meets heaven's sudden call, and a commoner becomes a lord.
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