Hexagram 44 · line 4
Coming to Meet
姤Gòu
The wrapping has no fish. Misfortune arises.
Line statement
九四
包无魚，起凶。
The wrapping has no fish. Misfortune arises.
The wrapping is empty at Line 4, where outer Heaven has lost contact with the fish below. Making that line yielding turns Heaven into Wind and gives Hexagram 57, doubled Wind.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes