艮 → 姤
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5).
Line 2
六二 艮其腓。不拯其隨。其心不快。
Six in the second place means: Keeping his calves still. He cannot rescue him whom he follows. His heart is not glad.
Line 4
六四 艮其身。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Keeping his trunk still. No blame.
Line 5
六五 艮其輔。言有序。悔亡。
Six in the fifth place means: Keeping his jaws still. The words have order. Remorse disappears.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
操笱搏狸，荷弓射魚。非其器用，自令心勞。
Wielding a fish trap to catch a wildcat, shouldering a bow to shoot fish. Not the proper tool for the use; it only makes the heart toil.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, but the tools are all wrong. One takes a fish trap to catch a wildcat, and a bow to shoot fish — none of the implements match their purpose. The result is not failure through weakness but failure through categorical error: competence misdirected. From Keeping Still to Coming to Meet, mountain yields to wind beneath heaven, the unexpected encounter. Coming to Meet warns of the yin principle arising unbidden — something appears that was not sought. The verse's mismatched tools resonate: when one prepares for the wrong encounter, the meeting itself becomes absurd. The mountain's stillness should have been a time for correct preparation, but instead, the wrong equipment was chosen, and effort becomes self-exhausting futility.
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