[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":543},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-gou":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":229},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":214,"date":215,"description":216,"extension":217,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":218,"navigation":219,"order":220,"palaces":6,"path":221,"seo":222,"series":6,"sitemap":223,"star":6,"stem":224,"tags":225,"__hash__":228},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fgou.md","I Ching Gou Meaning: Hexagram 44 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":202},"minimark",[10,14,17,22,30,36,39,45,49,52,55,58,61,65,68,71,74,77,80,84,91,97,103,109,115,118,122,125,128,131,134,158,162,167,170,175,178,183,186,191,194],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Guai 夬 is deciding. After deciding you will meet. Meeting is Gou 姤. Students drawing Gou fall into two extremes most: one treats it as the true match arriving, ready to marry; one treats it as bad luck, sure there will be an affair. Both are too full. Gou is meeting. You can meet, and not necessarily keep, still less necessarily marry.",[11,15,16],{},"The picture is Heaven over Wind, Qian above Xun. Heaven above — the firm; wind below — entering, one yin just born. Five yang above; a yin appears at the very bottom, yin coming to meet the firm. Wind traveling under Heaven meets many things, and drills in fast. Many people write it as Xiao Xu 小畜, Wind over Heaven. Xiao Xu is Xun above Qian: wind in Heaven, gathering, dense clouds that do not rain. Reverse above and below and when you should guard a meeting you go to talk storing, and yin has already come in from under the feet.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"gou-after-deciding-there-must-be-a-meeting","Gou: after deciding there must be a meeting",[11,23,24,25,29],{},"The ",[26,27,28],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「決必有遇，故受之以姤。姤者，遇也。」 After deciding there must be meeting, so Gou follows. Gou means meeting. The old yin just decided away, a new meeting comes. Not the cosmos immediately sending you a better one. An empty seat will be bumped into. Draw Gou: in the matter you asked about there is a sudden encounter — a person, a chance, a message, a relationship you did not put on the calendar.",[11,31,24,32,35],{},[26,33,34],{},"Tuan"," says: 「姤，遇也，柔遇剛也。」 Gou is meeting: the yielding meets the firm. Not the firm going to marry the yielding. The yielding arrived first. This sentence matters for divination. Gou’s initiative often is not on the side you think. You think you are choosing; that yin has already walked to the first line.",[11,37,38],{},"The judgment is harder: 「女壯，勿用取女。」 The woman is strong; do not use taking a wife. This “woman” is not cursing all women. It is this kind of meeting: yin is only one, the coming is strong, not suitable as a principal wife, as the sole basis of a formal partnership. Take is marry, and also take to use. An encounter can be met. Do not at once make it a title, an exclusive, your whole tomorrow.",[11,40,24,41,44],{},[26,42,43],{},"Xiang"," says: 「天下有風，姤。后以施命誥四方。」 Wind under Heaven, Gou. The sovereign issues commands and announces to the four quarters. Wind is already under Heaven. A person in position must use clear commands to announce. A meeting has come: rules must be in place first, not feeling. Love is so; business is so.",[18,46,48],{"id":47},"career-and-wealth-a-chance-has-come-receive-it-do-not-throw-a-banquet","Career and wealth: a chance has come — receive it, do not throw a banquet",[11,50,51],{},"Ask about career and draw Gou: commonly a sudden order, a sudden person, a sudden opening. You can meet, can talk. Nine in the second: 「包有魚，無咎，不利賓。」 The wrapping has a fish; no blame; not beneficial for guests. The fish is the portion already met. Keep it, close it well. Do not show it off, do not let guests divide it, do not publish it until everyone wants a bite.",[11,53,54],{},"Nine in the fourth: 「包無魚，起凶。」 The wrapping has no fish; to arise is unfortunate. What should have been wrapped was not caught: an empty wrap, and moving is unfortunate. In career: a chance came, you did not catch it, and you are still raising a matter, a fuss, a game with no content. Gou fears emptiness most. Meeting and not receiving, and not meeting yet forcing a creation: both unfortunate.",[11,56,57],{},"In wealth, Gou looks like a gust blowing something to the door. Short, fast, the coming unclear. You can pick it up. Do not treat the opening as the company’s main grain. The woman is strong, do not take her to wife, in wealth: this kind of too-strong chance is not suitable as your only formal business. As a side branch, as one meeting: allowed. As a principal wife: the risk is written in the judgment.",[11,59,60],{},"The initial six: 「繫于金柅，貞吉。有攸往，見凶。羸豕孚蹢躅。」 Tie it to a metal brake; persistence is fortunate. Going somewhere, you see misfortune. Like a lean pig, restless, pacing. Draw the initial six: that person, that chance, must have a brake. Without a metal ni 柅, yin runs all over the ground. At the start of a partnership, write authority, term, the money boundary dead: that is the metal brake.",[18,62,64],{"id":63},"gou-in-love-it-is-meeting-not-necessarily-marriage","Gou in love: it is meeting, not necessarily marriage",[11,66,67],{},"This hexagram, love must be spoken slowly. In class I first have students separate three words: meeting, marriage, affair. Gou is the first. The other two must be asked separately, and the lines read separately.",[11,69,70],{},"If you are single and draw Gou, you do easily bump into someone. The speed of bumping will be fast; the occasion will not look like a matchmaking. More like wind: work, travel, a friend’s dinner, an evening you had not prepared to take seriously. You can know them, come and go. Do not take her to wife: do not now use “this is the true match” to take. Take it, and the strength that follows becomes hard to gather.",[11,72,73],{},"If you are already together and draw Gou, raise alertness, and do not automatically pronounce infidelity. It may be an old person appearing suddenly, a new temptation, a work partner coming too close. The yielding meets the firm: often that yin comes to find yang, not yang hunting the street. If the home side is empty, has just decided a stretch, has just fought a fight, the meeting will be more accurate. The method is not taking up arms and flipping a phone. It is the metal brake: state the boundary, gather time, money, and being alone together. The wrapping has a fish, not beneficial for guests: the fish you already have, do not invite guests in.",[11,75,76],{},"A woman asking about love and drawing Gou need not put on the old line that she herself is “the woman strong.” She may have met a very strong object, or her own meeting this time came too fiercely. Read the question. What the hexagram cautions is “using this meeting to complete a taking” — not cautioning a gender for being alive.",[11,78,79],{},"Upper nine: 「姤其角，吝，無咎。」 Meeting at the horn; regret, no blame. At the top the meeting has already skewed: you hit the horn, not the body. Force a taking further: regret. Stop: no blame.",[18,81,83],{"id":82},"the-lines-of-gou-mostly-teach-once-met-how-to-wrap-how-to-tie","The lines of Gou mostly teach: once met, how to wrap, how to tie",[11,85,86,90],{},[87,88,89],"strong",{},"Initial six: 繫于金柅，貞吉；有攸往見凶."," Yin just arrived: the brake matters most. Going is unfortunate. Ask “shall I go further with this person”: the initial six often says tie it first, do not go.",[11,92,93,96],{},[87,94,95],{},"Nine in the second: 包有魚，無咎，不利賓."," Met: wrap it well. The fish is with you. Do not invite guests, do not let a third person in to divide this meeting. In love: just met, first the two of you see the situation clearly. Do not publish it into liveliness, and do not pull old guests in to judge.",[11,98,99,102],{},[87,100,101],{},"Nine in the third: 臀無膚，其行次且，厲，無大咎."," The buttocks have no skin; walking is difficult; dangerous, no great blame. This line looks like an uncomfortable meeting: the relationship has no flesh, nowhere to sit, walking uneven. You can know the danger. Need not make yourself the tragic lead. Do not force a taking, and there is no great blame.",[11,104,105,108],{},[87,106,107],{},"Nine in the fourth: 包無魚，起凶."," No substance, and you still start. Ask “does the other person have a heart”: nine in the fourth is straight: the wrap is empty. Empty and still arising: unfortunate. Stopping is smarter than chasing.",[11,110,111,114],{},[87,112,113],{},"Nine in the fifth: 以杞包瓜，含章，有隕自天."," Wrap a melon with willow; containing brilliance; something falls from Heaven. A meeting in position can wrap something large and sweet, but wrap with the yielding, not take with hardness. Containing brilliance: there is goods inside; need not display everything at the first meeting. Something falls from Heaven: when the time arrives it drops by itself. Need not climb to pick.",[11,116,117],{},"The upper nine as above. A meeting at the horn hits the thorn, not the person. Regret, then stop.",[18,119,121],{"id":120},"in-class-i-most-fear-students-using-gou-to-authorize-a-life-decision","In class I most fear students using Gou to authorize a life decision",[11,123,124],{},"A meeting can be very sweet. Sweet is not a title. The woman is strong, do not take her to wife: not a curse. It protects you. Make an encounter directly into a marriage, an exclusive business promise, the sole reason to move to the other person’s city: whether you can gather the strength that follows, the hexagram has already asked you.",[11,126,127],{},"Metal brake, wrapping has a fish, not beneficial for guests: three sentences are enough. A brake, content, not leaking. Then Gou is a chance. Without these three, Gou is wind drilling in: open the door, and five yang will be taken along.",[11,129,130],{},"The lean pig pacing is the initial six’s picture: restless, hooves not still. When a meeting just comes, the body is faster than the mind. Then use persistence, not going. Going is seeing misfortune. Many people get into trouble not because they did not meet, but because the night they met had no metal brake, and they treated wind as fate.",[11,132,133],{},"Gou in career, besides a sudden order, is also common in being headhunted, a side job, a partnership that came too fast. You can talk; first put on the metal brake. Treat the other as the only support, the principal-wife brand, and “the woman is strong” turns from chance into a bind. Wrapping has a fish, not beneficial for guests, also advises: do not at a dinner call a case that has not formed already done. Guests come in, and the fish is no longer in your wrap.",[11,135,136,137,142,143,147,148,152,153,157],{},"It comes from Guai. The breath after deciding is not yet level, and a meeting most easily comes in. Read together: ",[138,139,141],"a",{"href":140},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fguai","I Ching Guai Meaning | Hexagram 43 How to Read: Breakthrough, How to Decide and Remove",". Do not read above and below as Xiao Xu. Xiao Xu is gathering, dense clouds that do not rain. Gou is yin entering from under the feet. 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Already in a marriage, check whether a yin is under the feet: ambiguity, an old person, too much being alone together. What you check is the boundary, not killing with one hexagram. No facts, and using Gou to convict, is itself too firm.",[11,171,172],{},[87,173,174],{},"Can Gou be read as a true match?",[11,176,177],{},"As “someone bumped into you”: yes. As “you can take, marry, entrust everything”: no — at least not on this original hexagram alone. The judgment wrote do not take her to wife. A true match must be looked at separately: is there Heng, Jia Ren, a line that can persist. Meeting is a start. Marriage is another matter.",[11,179,180],{},[87,181,182],{},"Wrapping has a fish, not beneficial for guests: is that telling me to hide this relationship?",[11,184,185],{},"Not teaching you to steal. This meeting cannot yet bear guests, display, a third person coming in to divide. Going public waits until it is not held up by wind alone. Treating a furtive stretch as a principal wife is also a kind of taking. The hexagram likes that no better.",[11,187,188],{},[87,189,190],{},"A sudden partnership in career, I drew Gou: should I take it?",[11,192,193],{},"You can meet; first put on the metal brake: term, split, how to exit. Taking it as a side branch matches the hexagram better than as the only main work. 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Then they start reading: breakup, resign, things to throw away.",{},{"path":396,"title":397,"description":398,"meta":399},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flin","I Ching Lin Meaning: Hexagram 19 Explained","Draw Lin 臨 and students easily hear: a patron has come, opportunity has come, those above will lift me. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":401,"title":402,"description":403,"meta":404},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv","I Ching Lü Meaning: Hexagram 10 Explained","Draw Lü 履 and students often hear two things. One: Lü is shoes, I will go charge. The other: there is a tiger ahead, I will do nothing.",{},{"path":406,"title":407,"description":408,"meta":409},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Flv_wanderer","I Ching Lü (Wanderer) Meaning: Hexagram 56","Lü (Wanderer) 旅 appears, and a person is usually not on their own kang. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":411,"title":412,"description":413,"meta":414},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmeng","I Ching Meng Meaning: Hexagram 4 Explained","Draw Meng 蒙 and students love to hear two sentences. One: I am stupid. The other: I am not ready, so I should learn nothing.",{},{"path":416,"title":417,"description":418,"meta":419},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning: Hexagram 36","Draw Ming Yi 明夷 and the room often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint darkness. The picture is very straight: light has been buried.",{},{"path":421,"title":422,"description":423,"meta":424},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fpi","I Ching Pi Meaning: Hexagram 12 Explained","Draw Pi 否 and class often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint tragedy. Because this hexagram is straight: not open.",{},{"path":426,"title":427,"description":428,"meta":429},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian","I Ching Qian Meaning: Hexagram 1 Explained","Draw Qian 乾 and the first sentence people say is: great luck, go for it. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":155,"title":431,"description":432,"meta":433},"I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning: Hexagram 15","Among the sixty-four hexagrams, the one that truly deserves “every line still gets through” is Qian (Modesty) 謙, the most famous.",{},{"path":435,"title":436,"description":437,"meta":438},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsheng","I Ching Sheng Meaning: Hexagram 46 Explained","Cui 萃 is gathering. Gathered, things go up. Going up is Sheng 升. Students drawing Sheng easily hear promotion, a flying dragon. Too early.",{},{"path":440,"title":441,"description":442,"meta":443},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshi","I Ching Shi Meaning: Hexagram 7 Explained","Draw Shi 師 and students often hear it as war, as unlucky, as “who do I have to fight.” Shi does have the image of troops.",{},{"path":445,"title":446,"description":447,"meta":448},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshihe","I Ching Shi He Meaning: Hexagram 21","Draw Shi He 噬嗑 and some think it is a hexagram of eating, some a hexagram of quarreling. Both touch it; both are not accurate.",{},{"path":450,"title":451,"description":452,"meta":453},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsong","I Ching Song Meaning: Hexagram 6 Explained","Draw Song 訟 and some people are excited: at last I can get justice. Some are afraid: am I going to court. Both feelings are too full.",{},{"path":455,"title":456,"description":457,"meta":458},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsui","I Ching Sui Meaning: Hexagram 17 Explained","Draw Sui 隨 and students often take it as: following along is right, go with the flow, go with fate. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":460,"title":461,"description":462,"meta":463},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun","I Ching Sun Meaning: Hexagram 41 Explained","Hear Sun 損 and students wrinkle the face. The character looks like taking a loss, broken wealth, being shaved. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":465,"title":466,"description":467,"meta":468},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftai","I Ching Tai Meaning: Hexagram 11 Explained","Tai 泰 is the hexagram in a reading that lets people exhale. Not because it is mysterious. Because the picture is clear: Earth above, Heaven below — Peace.",{},{"path":470,"title":471,"description":472,"meta":473},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftongren","I Ching Tong Ren Meaning: Hexagram 13","Draw Tong Ren 同人 and students often automatically translate: there is a patron, there are partners, this time we can do it together.",{},{"path":475,"title":476,"description":477,"meta":478},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fweiji","I Ching Wei Ji Meaning: Hexagram 64","Wei Ji 未濟 is the last of the sixty-four hexagrams. Fire above, water below: Fire over Water, Wei Ji. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":480,"title":481,"description":482,"meta":483},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fwuwang","I Ching Wu Wang Meaning: Hexagram 25","Draw Wu Wang 無妄 and students often split in two camps. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":485,"title":486,"description":487,"meta":488},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxian","I Ching Xian Meaning: Hexagram 31 Explained","Draw Xian 咸 and in class someone’s eyes often light: love is coming. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":490,"title":491,"description":492,"meta":493},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo","I Ching Xiao Guo Meaning: Hexagram 62","Xiao Guo 小過 is not as simple as a small fault, and still less “the sin is small, it does not matter.” Guo 過 is going beyond, slightly past the usual line.",{},{"path":145,"title":495,"description":496,"meta":497},"I Ching Xiao Xu Meaning: Hexagram 9","Draw Xiao Xu 小畜 and students often have two kinds of haste. One: store means save, I will save hugely and do something huge.",{},{"path":499,"title":500,"description":501,"meta":502},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxie","I Ching Xie Meaning: Hexagram 40 Explained","Jian 蹇 is difficulty. Xie 解 is difficulty beginning to loosen. Students drawing Xie easily breathe out, as if they can celebrate. Too early.",{},{"path":504,"title":505,"description":506,"meta":507},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxu","I Ching Xu Meaning: Hexagram 5 Explained","Draw Xu 需 and students most often hear “wait” as two extremes. One: then I lie down and wait for luck. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":509,"title":510,"description":511,"meta":512},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxun","I Ching Xun Meaning: Hexagram 57 Explained","Xun 巽 does not sound like Qian 乾, with force at the first hearing. It is wind, entering, going in through a crack. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":514,"title":515,"description":516,"meta":517},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi","I Ching Yi (Nourishment) Meaning: Hexagram 27","Draw Yi (Nourishment) 頤 and students often first think of the mouth. What to eat, can I lose weight, does this job feed me. The mouth is not wrong.",{},{"path":519,"title":520,"description":521,"meta":522},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi_increase","I Ching Yi (Increase) Meaning: Hexagram 42","After Sun 損 comes Yi 益. Students drawing Yi light up: finally it is my turn to receive. This hexagram does have receiving.",{},{"path":524,"title":525,"description":526,"meta":527},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyu","I Ching Yu Meaning: Hexagram 16 Explained","Draw Yu 豫 and a student’s face lights. Yu is joy, smoothness, the matter finally going smoothly, a chance to breathe. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":529,"title":530,"description":531,"meta":532},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhen","I Ching Zhen Meaning: Hexagram 51 Explained","Zhen 震 appears, and the matter is rarely still. It is thunder, movement, that sudden strike. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":534,"title":535,"description":536,"meta":537},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhongfu","I Ching Zhong Fu Meaning: Hexagram 61","Zhong Fu 中孚, split, is easy: in the middle there is fu 孚. Fu is trust, something like an egg, inside and outside one, that can hatch.",{},{"path":539,"title":540,"description":541,"meta":542},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhun","I Ching Zhun Meaning: Hexagram 3 Explained","Students who draw Zhun 屯 often react in one of two ways: it is over, I cannot start — or beginnings are hard, so I will do it another day.",{},1787715768851]