The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 44

What does I Ching hexagram 44, Meeting, mean?

The judgment

姤：女壯，勿用取女。Meeting: the woman is strong. Do not take this woman in marriage.Zhou Yi 周易, 姤, judgment. Source

The image

天下有風，姤；后以施命誥四方。Wind under heaven. The ruler gives orders and makes them known in all directions.Zhou Yi 周易, 姤, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初六：系于金柅，貞吉，有攸往，見凶，羸豕，孚，蹢躅。
2. Second line九二：包有魚，无咎，不利賓。
3. Third line九三：臀无膚，其行次且，厲，无大咎。
4. Fourth line九四：包无魚，起凶。
5. Fifth line九五：以杞包瓜，含章，有隕自天。
6. Top line上九：姤其角，吝，无咎。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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