Hexagram 44 · line 6

Coming to Meet

姤Gòu

Encountering with the horns. Regret, but no fault.

Line statement

上九

姤其角,吝,无咎。

Encountering with the horns. Regret, but no fault.

Encounter reaches the horns at Line 6, the hard upper limit. When the firm top yields, Heaven becomes Lake and the result is Hexagram 28, Lake above Wind under an exceptional load.

Computed position

How this place works

Trigram position
outer · boundary

Line 6 is the boundary 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 3: same polarity

Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.

One line changes

Moving to 28 · Preponderance of the Great