Hexagram 44 · line 5
Coming to Meet
姤Gòu
A tall tree shelters a melon. Brilliance is held within; something descends from heaven.
Line statement
九五
以杞包瓜，含章，有隕自天。
A tall tree shelters a melon. Brilliance is held within; something descends from heaven.
Zhu Xi reads Line 5 as a sturdy tree sheltering a delicate melon. Brilliance remains concealed, while something arrives unexpectedly from heaven. Changing the firm center makes Fire above Wind, Hexagram 50.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 2: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes