小過 → 姤
Hexagram 62: Small Exceeding → Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 飛鳥以凶。
Six at the beginning means: The bird meets with misfortune through flying.
Line 2
六二 過其祖。遇其妣。不及其君。遇其臣。无咎。
Six in the second place means: She passes by her ancestor And meets her ancestress. He does not reach his prince And meets the official. No blame.
Line 3
九三 弗過防之。從或戕之。凶。
Nine in the third place means: If one is not extremely careful, Somebody may come up from behind and strike him. Misfortune.
Line 4
九四 无咎。弗過遇之。往厲必戒。勿用永貞。
Nine in the fourth place means: No blame. He meets him without passing by. Going brings danger. One must be on guard. Do not act. Be constantly persevering.
Line 5
六五 密雲不雨。自我西郊。公弋取彼在穴。
Six in the fifth place means: Dense clouds, No rain from our western territory. The prince shoots and hits him who is in the cave.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
驅羊就群，佷不肯前。慶季愎諫，子之被患。
Driving sheep to join the flock, but stubbornly it will not go forward; Qing Ji rejected advice, and his son suffered the consequences.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder rumbles above the mountain as one drives sheep toward the flock, but the stubborn animals refuse to advance. Qingji rejects good counsel, and his son suffers the consequences. The sheep that will not join the flock embody willful resistance to natural order — herd animals refusing to herd. Qingji (慶季), likely a Spring and Autumn period figure, stubbornly dismisses admonition, and the cost falls not on himself but on his heir. The verse captures a particular cruelty of obstinacy: the consequences skip a generation. From Small Exceeding to Coming to Meet, the mountain's thunder yields to wind moving beneath heaven — the unexpected encounter. But this meeting is unwelcome: what comes to meet the stubborn father is not opportunity but the punishment his son must bear.
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