Hexagram 44: Coming to Meet天風姤 · Gòu

• Upper trigram　Qián, Heaven: strength, creation and the drive to move forward.
• Lower trigram　Xùn, Wind: gentleness, penetration and steady influence.

The Judgment

The maiden is strong; do not marry such a maiden.

女壯，勿用取女。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

An unexpected meeting. You may come across unexpected people or events today; stay open, while thinking twice about commitments made too quickly.

Something to do today

• For a new invitation today, find out more before you say yes.

How a hexagram is cast

The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.