Coming to meet — an unexpected encounter with a quietly rising force.
Something small and tempting reappears and should not be embraced lightly. Stay alert to what quietly grows in influence. Meet it early and with clear judgment.
encountertemptationcautionvigilance
Coming to Meet places Heaven (strong, creative) above Wind (gentle, penetrating). The interplay of these two trigrams gives the hexagram its character.
The Classical Textoriginal Chinese
The Judgment · 卦辞
女壮，勿用取女。
The Image · 大象
天下有风，姤；后以施命诰四方。
The Six Lines · 爻辞
- 初六系于金柅，贞吉，有攸往，见凶，羸豕孚蹢躅。象曰：系于金柅，柔道牵也。
- 九二包有鱼，无咎，不利宾。象曰：包有鱼，义不及宾也。
- 九三臀无肤，其行次且，厉，无大咎。象曰：其行次且，行未牵也。
- 九四包无鱼，起凶。象曰：无鱼之凶，远民也。
- 九五以杞包瓜，含章，有陨自天。象曰：九五含章，中正也。有陨自天，志不舍命也。
- 上九姤其角，吝，无咎。象曰：姤其角，上穷吝也。
The judgment, image and line texts above are quoted from the original Zhou Yi. A modern Chinese translation of the full classic is available on the original-text page.