Hexagram 44 · line 1
Coming to Meet
姤Gòu
Tied to a metal brake, constancy is favorable. Going forward meets misfortune. A lean pig is sure to pace and struggle.
Line statement
初六
繫于金柅，貞吉。有攸往，見凶。羸豕孚蹢躅。
Tied to a metal brake, constancy is favorable. Going forward meets misfortune. A lean pig is sure to pace and struggle.
Line 1 is the single yielding entry beneath five firm lines, held at the first point of motion. Making it firm turns Wind into Heaven and produces Hexagram 1, an unbroken six-line figure.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes