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姤卦

Hexagram 44 · Coming to Meet (Gou) (天风姤)

Judgment(Original text)

女壮,勿用取女。

Hexagram structure

Upper trigram
乾(Heaven) · Metal
Lower trigram
巽(Wind) · Wood
Mutual hexagram
乾 · 乾为天
Reversed (zong)
夬 · 泽天夬
Opposite (cuo)
复 · 地雷复

How to read changing lines

When a cast produces moving lines (three of a kind with coins, or a moving line in Mei Hua time casting), classical rules set the priority. Following Zhu Xi's Yixue Qimeng:

  • One line movesRead the moving line's text of this hexagram as primary
  • Two lines moveRead both moving lines' texts, the upper one takes precedence
  • Three lines moveCombine the Judgments of this hexagram and the changed one (ben as zhen, changed as hui)
  • Four lines moveRead the two unmoved lines' texts of the changed hexagram, the lower takes precedence
  • Five lines moveRead the single unmoved line's text of the changed hexagram
  • Six lines moveQian and Kun use their special 'Yong' texts; other hexagrams read the changed hexagram's Judgment

The Line texts are listed in full below.

Lines(Original text)

  1. Line 1初六:系于金柅,贞吉。有攸往,见凶,羸豕孚蹢躑。
  2. Line 2九二:包有鱼,无咎,不利宾。
  3. Line 3九三:臀无肤,其行次且,厉,无大咎。
  4. Line 4九四:包无鱼,起凶。
  5. Line 5九五:以杞包瓜,含章,有陨自天。
  6. Line 6上九:姤其角,吝,无咎。

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