I Ching · Hexagram 44
Gòu: Coming to Meet
Wind blows everywhere under heaven and meets everything. Gou is a sudden encounter, an influence that arrives easily and may grow larger than it looks.
- Keywords
- Encounter, temptation, influence, caution
- Upper trigram
- Heaven (Qian)
- Lower trigram
- Wind (Xun)
- Advice
- Be friendly, but don't let a small influence take control of you.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.