第 44 卦 · 天风姤

姤卦原文
姤。女壮，勿用取女。

象曰：天下有风，姤。后以施命诰四方。

白话文解释
姤卦：梦见女子受伤。筮遇此卦，不利于娶女。
《象辞》说：本卦上卦为乾，乾为天；下卦为巽，巽为风，可见天下有风，是姤卦的卦象，君王观此卦象，从而效法于风之吹拂万物，施教化于天下，昭告四方。
《断易天机》解
姤卦乾上巽下，一阴五阳，为乾宫初世卦。姤卦以阴遇阳，以柔乘刚，含有不期而遇之意，但不宜娶女。遇此卦适宜谋事，如果遇火，还会有喜事。

北宋易学家邵雍解
阴长阳消，鸿运中衰；诸多阻滞，谨慎以防。
得此卦者，阴长阳衰，诸事不顺，宜谨慎行事，更应注意桃色纠纷。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：正当好运，名扬四海。
财运：到了远方，自可获利。
家宅：小心狂风；婚姻得正。
身体：小心中风。

传统解卦
这个卦是异卦（下巽上乾）相叠。乾为天，巽为风。天下有风，吹遍大地，阴阳交合，万物茂盛。姤（gǒu）卦与夬卦相反，互为“综卦”。姤即媾，阴阳相遇。但五阳一阴，不能长久相处。
大象：风无孔不入，所吹到之处，暴露其间之物体，无一不与之相遇，为邂逅之意。
运势：阴长阳消，注意桃色纠纷，诸事阻滞，宜慎重行事。
事业：合时宜，循时序。但潜在着危机，阴阳不协调。务必依附于强者，多方联系，增强势力，防止小人渔利，争取形势好转。诸事宜及早准备，等待时机，一旦成熟立刻行动。
经商：市场正从红火的状态走向衰危，及早脱身为妙，强行发展有危险。无正直的人相助，却有小人在暗中盘算。对此，务必保持清醒的头脑，寻求可靠的合作伙伴，隐忍待时，以图商业活动的再发展。
求名：性格不很合群，内心自视过高，不免处于困境而不得志。应投靠真诚正直的人，在其支持下成功。
婚恋：严格考察对方的道德品质，避免陷入“三角”纠纷。夫妻以诚相待，可转危为安。
决策：吉利。可在有利的环境中顺利发展，但决不可冒险行事，以免适得其反。其次在于随时提防身边小人的陷害。为此，在邪恶未成势之前即应制止，宁可孤立也不可与小人结伴。

第四十四卦的哲学含义

姤卦卦象，天风姤卦的象征意义
姤卦，这个卦是异卦相叠，下卦为巽，上卦为乾。乾为天，巽为风。天下有风，吹遍大地，阴阳交合，万物茂盛。
姤，遇也。在姤卦中，乾为天在上，巽为风在下，象征着一个人的志愿和理想，只要能像风一样在普天之下流动，就会遇到实现的机会。
姤卦位于夬卦之后，《序卦》中这样分析道：“决必有遇，故受之以姤。姤者，遇也。”决断而去之后，一定会有遇合，所以接着出现了姤卦。姤卦与夬卦相反，互为“综卦”。
《象》中这样解释姤卦：天下有风，姤；后以施命诰四方。这里指出：姤卦的卦象是巽（风）下乾（天）上，为天底下刮着风，风吹遍天地间各个角落，与万物相依之表象，象征着“相遇”；正如风吹拂大地的情形一样，君王也应该颁布政令通告四面八方。
姤卦代表男女相遇，这一卦是消息卦，代表五月。姤卦属于上卦。《象》中这样来断此卦：他乡遇友喜气欢，须知运气福重添，自今交了顺当运，向后管保不相干。

44.天风姤(䷫)-高岛易断
《姤》为《夬》之反，《夬》为一阴在上，五阳决之，几至于尽，至《姤》而一阴复生于下。造化之理，阴阳奇偶，如影随形，循环反复，去而复生。天地不能有阳而无阴，圣人虽恶阴，而终不能绝阴。《姤》之一阴，即自坤元下画而来，履霜之渐，已兆于此矣。按：《姤》字从女，从后，女阴象，后与後通，谓阴即伏于《乾》后也。此五阳一阴卦之所以名姤也。
姤：女壮，勿用取女。
《姤》五月之卦，一阴自《坤》初来，生于《乾》下；《坤》为女，又为老阴，故曰“女壮”。盖阴之始生，其机甚微，其势甚捷，寒霜坚冰，渐积渐长，阴之侵阳，有防不及防者矣。往往家道之索，其始皆启于女子，是壮莫壮于女也，惩其壮，故戒以勿娶。特于《姤》阴始生发之，所以杜女祸之萌也。
《彖传》曰：姤，遇也，柔遇刚也。勿用取女，不可与长也。天地相遇，品物咸章也。刚遇中正，天下大行也。姤之时义大矣哉！
“姤”，古文作遘；或作逅。遘谓行而相值也；逅，邂逅，谓不期而会也，要即相遇之义也。卦体下《巽》上《乾》，《乾》者天也，《巽》者风也，天本清明在上，而微风乍起，适与相遇，故曰“柔遇刚也”。娶女本人伦之大，然《诗》“野有蔓草”，为男女相遇之私，遇而不正，故曰“勿用娶女”；而《彖传》谓“不可与长”，盖防《姤》阴之长而侵阳也。惟相遇而不相侵，斯阴阳相济，而适以相成。夫独阳不生，独阴不育，天地相遇，乃能生物。《乾》曰“品物流形”，《坤》曰“品物咸亨”，惟其相遇有成也。《姤》当四月纯《乾》之后，《坤》阴始生，《乾》为刚，《坤》土居中，为中正，谓之“刚遇中正”，将见天子当阳出治。握《乾》德之刚方，阐《坤》阴之中正，斯德以位显，道与时行，黎民于变，四方风动，在此时也。风之行最捷，风在天下，故曰“天下大行”。王化行而礼义修，礼义修而风俗正，江汉之间，女子皆能贞洁白守，相遇而不与长，复何虑乎“女壮”者哉！《姤》之时为盛夏，夏之为言养也，《姤》之时义之大，于此可见矣。
以此卦拟人事，人事不外男女嫁娶，是人伦之大端也。勿娶则人伦灭，天地闭绝，阴阳睽隔，不生不育，不特无以为家，抑且无以为天下矣。《彖》所谓勿娶者，非不娶也，为勿用《姤》道以娶之耳。姤字从女，其义为遇，女本阴柔，阳遇之而授以权，则阴乃长，阴长则“女壮”，五阳虽盛，一阴得以消之矣。《传》曰“不可与长”，是抑其壮而归之以中正也。所遇既得中正，则巽顺以从，所谓“宜尔室家，乐而妻孥”，刑于之化，可行于邦国。由是而推之，即天下亦可大行矣，夫何忧夫“女壮”哉！圣人作《易》，以著消长之几，阴阳起伏，不能偏废，惟在因时以保护之耳。故六爻之义，多取以阳包阴，而九五之“包”，最得中正。诸爻之受其包者固包，即不受其包者，亦不能外其包。斯阴不至于侵阳，则阴阳得其平，阴阳平而夫妇之道和，夫妇和而人事乃无不中正矣。
以此卦拟国家，自来国家颠覆，其衅每启自阃闱，如殷纣之亡由妲己，周幽之乱启褒姒，“女壮”之祸，万古垂鉴。圣人于《姤》卦，首示其戒，惕之曰“勿用娶女”，盖所以遏其流而杜其渐也。其义则正，其旨则严，而其辞未免过激，惩其壮而“勿娶”，不特人伦有缺，且何以处《关雎》“好逑”也耶？故《传》申之曰“不可与长”，谓所恶于女者，恶其阴之渐长也。阴不长，则阳不消，阳足以育阴，而阴不能剥阳，斯相遇而不相争，且更得其相助。王者之化，起自宫中，后妃之德，被于江汉，自来郅治之朝，未尝不藉内助之贤也。“《姤》者，遇也”，卦体上《乾》下《巽》，《乾》刚《巽》柔，谓之“柔遇刚也”。推之天地相遇而品物生，夫妻相遇而家政修，群臣相遇而治化行，盖得遇则成偶，不遇则为奇。事无大小，未有不以相遇而成者也，特所遇务期中正耳。姤卦六爻，惟九五独得中正：以杞为刚，以瓜为柔，杞之遇瓜，即刚之遇柔，得其包，则刚不为柔侵，而柔自乐为刚用。诸爻亦以中正为吉，以不得正中为凶。刚包之，实乾元包之，“大哉乾元”，其遇者广，其包者愈大矣。为《姤》言之，非专为姤言之也，国家教化之臧否，皆可于此卜之矣。
通观此卦，卦之体属夫女，卦之义取夫遇，卦之象用惩其壮，卦之用戒其与长。天下不能无女也，天下亦不可无遇也，因其壮之为害，而遂欲绝其女，却其遇，是率天下于寂灭之途，岂圣人作《易》之旨哉？盖壮之为害，不在于壮，而在与壮以权者，壮乃得以渐长。《传》曰“不可与长”，则壮无其权，而女不为害，相遇适足以相成，而遇正大可用也。
姤之为卦，何尝不善？《乾》天上运，《巽》风下行，“帝出乎震，齐乎巽，相见乎离”，遇之象也，是以天地得遇而物生，刚柔得遇而道平，君臣得遇而治成，《姤》之时义，所以为大也。天下有风，为天风相遇，天无远而不覆，风无远而不届，古先哲以大中至正之道，宣告四方，象取此耳。
爻以九五阳刚居尊，为卦之主。初以一阴方来，有君民相遇之象；二以刚中下应，有大臣宣化之象；五所用以招携怀远，风行下国者也；三、四、上三爻，或病于“牵”，或失于“远”，或伤于“穷”，是皆不善于包，而相遇之未得其中正也。圣人爱阳而恶阴，爱阳而喜其来，故于复之一阳，而喜其“来复”，恶阴而亦不能禁其不来，故于《姤》之一阴，而戒其用壮。可见圣人之于阴，未尝不予阴以并生，但不使阴之浸长为患也已。
《大象》曰：天下有风，始，后以施命诰四方。
风字从几，从一，从虫，几象天体，一者大也，虫者生化之机。《巽》为风，为虫，风之来也，遍行天下，故曰风。《乾》为君，《巽》为命，君门九重，堂下万里，命诰不施，上情壅而不通，下心疑而未信，何以与民遇哉？故凡立一政，兴一法，必颁之典章，布之训诰，自朝廷以及里闾，使天下晓然而知上意。风教之行，疾如音响，故曰“后以施命诰四方”。《乾》为西北，《巽》为东南，四方之象也。
【占】　问时运：好运盛行，能使四方闻名。
○　问战征：军令迅速，赏必信，罚必行，有席卷天下之势。
○　问营商：为商为利，宜贩运远方，可以随在获利。
○　问功名：有名扬四海之象。
○　问婚姻：婚礼所重，在父母之命，媒妁之言，犹政事之有诰命也。得其正，则天下可行也。
○　问家宅：此宅防有被风倾圯之虑。
○　问疾病：小儿为惊风，大人为肝风，防有四肢不仁，或手足牵拘之症。
○　问讼事：此讼牵连甚广，一时未得罢休。
○　问失物：窃者已远飚，难以再得。
○　问六甲：生女。

Judgment
Legge: Temptation shows a female who is bold and strong. It will not be good to marry such a female.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Coming to Meet. The maiden is powerful. One should not marry such a maiden.
Blofeld: Contact. Women wield the power. Do not marry. [At this time marriage would be unfortunate; the husband would almost surely be henpecked.]
Liu: Encountering. The female is forceful. One should not marry her.
Ritsema/Karcher: Coupling, womanhood invigorating. No availing-of grasping womanhood. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of the encounter of primal energies. It emphasizes that seeing-through your personal situation as the connection of objective forces is the adequate way to handle it...]
Couple, KOU: intense, driven encounter, at once transitory and enduring, that is the reflection of primal yin and yang; meet, encounter, copulate; mating animals; magnetism, gravity; to be gripped by impersonal forces. Primal forces couple in the inner world, seeding enduring new forms.
Shaughnessy: The maiden matures; do not herewith take a maiden.
Cleary (1): Meeting, the woman is strong. Don’t get married.
Cleary (2): In meeting, the woman is strong. Do not marry the woman.
Wu: Rendezvous indicates that the woman is strong. It is not advisable to marry that woman.

The Image
Legge: The image of wind with the sky above it forms Temptation. The sovereign, in accordance with this, delivers his charges, and promulgates his announcements throughout the four quarters of the kingdom.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Under heaven, wind: the image of Coming to Meet. Thus does the prince act when disseminating his commands and proclaiming them to the four quarters of heaven.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes wind blowing across the face of the earth. When the ruler issues commands, he has them proclaimed in every corner of the world.
Liu: The wind under the sky symbolizes Encountering. The ruler issues his directives, announcing them to the four corners (throughout his country).
Ritsema/Karcher: Below heaven possessing wind. Coupling. The crownprince uses spreading-out fate to command the four sides. [Fate, MING: individual destiny; birth and death as limits of life; issue orders with authority; consult the gods. The ideogram: mouth and order, words with heavenly authority.]
Cleary (1): There is wind under heaven, meeting. Thus do rulers announce their directives to the four quarters.
Wu: There is wind under heaven; this is Rendezvous. Thus, the sovereign announces the royal mandate to the whole nation.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: Temptation has the significance of unexpectedly coming on. We see in it the magnetic line coming unexpectedly on the dynamic ones. Marriage is improper, because one so symbolized should not be long associated with. When heaven and earth meet together as here represented, all the variety of natural things becomes displayed. When a dynamic line finds itself in the central and correct position, good government will nourish all under the sky. Great indeed is the significance of what has to be done at the time indicated by Temptation.
Legge: A single, magnetic line enters at the bottom of the hexagram. This is the figure used to represent the time of year when light and heat begin to wane. In the divided line we see the symbol of the inferior man, beginning to insinuate himself into the government of the country. His influence, if unchecked, would go on to grow and fill the vacant seats with others like himself. The objective of the Judgment is to arouse resistance to this evil influence.

Temptation is defined here as a sudden and casual meeting with
something inferior -- the divided line is seen as appearing all at once in the figure. The first line, magnetic in a dynamic place, becomes the symbol of a bold woman of more than questionable virtue who appears unexpectedly on the scene with the object of seducing all five of the dynamic (male) lines to herself. No one would contract a marriage with such a female, and every good servant of his country will repel the entrance into government of every officer who can be so symbolized. On the first two sentences of the Confucian commentary, the K'ang-hsi editors say: "The magnetic line meets with (or comes unexpectedly on) the dynamic ones. The magnetic line, that is, plays the principal part. The case is like that of the minister who assumes the power of decision in place of the ruler,
or of a hen crowing at sunrise -- is not the name of shameless boldness rightly applied to it?"
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment: Do not unite with an inferior element in your situation. ("Lead us not into temptation.") The Superior Man formulates his code of conduct and abides by it. Wilhelm translates the forty-fourth hexagram as Coming to Meet, and Blofeld gives it the rather startling subtitle of Sexual Intercourse. There is no doubt at all that the figure has an aura of illicit excitement associated with it which I feel is best conveyed by R. L. Wing's title of Temptation, though Adultery might also be suitable. One sometimes receives this hexagram under dramatic circumstances, and it serves to dump cold water on a potentially volatile series of choices and their equally volatile consequences. When we consider the importance of the proper correlation of male and female lines in the I Ching, we see that the Judgment in this hexagram can psychologically depict the temptation to an adulterous union of thought and feeling. Adultery is a very useful metaphor for understanding the principles of
the Work -- it means union with anything which, in I Ching terms, is not a "proper correlate.” To adulterate something is to degrade a pure substance by the addition of an inferior ingredient. The image of a temptation to adulterate the Work in this hexagram is therefore a warning in the strongest possible terms that you are vulnerable to some inferior choices. Consequently by marriages not only the earths but also the heavens are filled with inhabitants ... The earth indeed may be filled with inhabitants by fornications and adulteries as well as by marriages; but not heaven. The reason is that hell is from adulteries, and heaven from marriages ... When the procreations of the human race are effected through marriages in which the holy love of good and truth from the Lord reigns,

then it is done on earth as in the heavens, and the kingdom of the Lord on earth corresponds to the kingdom of the Lord in the heavens.
Swedenborg -- Apocalypse Explained The concept of the hieros gamos, or holy marriage, is a ubiquitous archetype found in every tradition rooted in the Perennial Philosophy. If this "marriage” symbolizes a proper union or reunion of previously separated elements, then it follows that the opposite situation: a union of mismatched entities would be symbolized by adultery. To recreate a primordial gestalt of perfection out of an exploded multiverse of mixed forces demands that all of the original pairs of opposites become properly matched correlates. Although any two opposite genders might feel a mutual attraction, there is really only one opposite which is an appropriate spouse. In the realm of human relationships this is evoked in the concept of the Soul Mate. Esoterically speaking, every polarized force in the multiverse has its proper correlate; it follows that the Work (in its largest conception) cannot be completed until each is reunited with each. Indeed every act of sexual intercourse which has occurred between those unlike one another is adultery... Members of a race usually have associated with those of like race. So spirit mingles with spirit, and thought consorts with thought and light shares with light. If you are born a human being, it is the human being who will love you. If you become a spirit, it is the spirit which will be joined to you. If you become thought, it is thought which will mingle with you. If you become light, it is the light which will share with you.
The Gnostic Gospel of Philip The point is important enough to bear repeating: psycho-spiritually interpreted, sexual intercourse and marriage symbolize the possibility of a unification of forces. Conversely, union with an improper correlate means adulteration of the Work. This is the esoteric meaning underlying the Hindu caste system: When (unrighteousness) overwhelms the family, O Krishna The women of the family become corrupt; and when, O Krishna, the women are corrupt, there arises a mixing of castes.
Bhagavad-Gita 1: 41 The "mixing of castes” is, in the symbolism of the I Ching, the union of improper correlate forces. ("Women,” as we have seen, usually symbolize the emotional and feeling aspects of the psyche.) We readily recognize that the above quotation from the Bhagavad-Gita accurately reflects the symbolism of the forty-fourth hexagram, reiterating the great truth that when emotions make the choices, the unity of the psyche is compromised.
Added notes, 9/7/10: Sometimes this hexagram is received in answer to queries related more to a fated (karmic) situation than anything normally

regarded as “temptation.” In these cases Ritsema/Karcher’s expanded notes on the ideograms are useful guides: “… gripped by impersonal forces. Primal forces couple in the inner world, seeding enduring new forms… This hexagram describes your situation in terms of the encounter of primal energies. It emphasizes that seeing-through your personal situation as the connection of objective forces is the adequate way to handle it...”

周易第四十四卦初九爻详解
初六爻辞
初六。系于金柅，贞吉。有攸往，见凶。羸豕孚蹢躅。
象曰：系于金柅，柔道牵也。
白话文解释
初六：细柔之线牵附于黄铜柅子之上。这是吉利的贞兆。若占问有所往，则必逢凶险，就象瘦弱的猪被不情愿地拖回来。
《象辞》说：细柔之线牵附于黄铜柅子上，是说柔物被牵制于刚物，以像柔弱者依附于刚强者，则获吉利。

北宋易学家邵雍解
平：得此爻者，或遇贵人好友提携而发财，女人有生育之喜。不良者，须防疾诉忧患，或女人有不贞之事。做官的有被贬职之忧。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：守成尚可，不宜妄动。
财运：适宜开店，不利行商。
家宅：维护家声；男外女内。
身体：虚弱静养。

初六变卦

  初六爻动变得周易第1卦：乾为天。这个卦是同卦（下乾上乾）相叠。象征天，喻龙（德才的君子），又象征纯粹的阳和健，表明兴盛强健。乾卦是根据万物变通的道理，以“元、亨、利、贞”为卦辞，表示吉祥如意，教导人遵守天道的德行。

初九爻的哲学含义

姤卦第一爻，爻辞：初六：系于金柅，贞吉；有攸往，见凶，羸豕孚踟躅。
《易经》中以羊代表阳爻，以猪代表阴爻。初六要有所行动，可是像猪一样被绑住了，于是跳动挣扎，不安现状。
从卦象上看，初六属于阴爻居阳位，失势而没居中位，阴气盛长，失中不正，有动向，但是往上发展将危及阳爻，所以“见凶”。对其行为必要予以节制，按中庸之道行事才能吉祥。
《象》中对此解释道：“系于金柅”，柔道牵也。这里指出：“紧紧缚在铜车闸上”，这样可以使其行为节制。
占得此爻者，不要被非理性的、不能自制的情感所支配，否则你会失去对生活的控制力，而陷入进退两难的困境。此时你应该耐心等待，不要过于急躁、冒进。
若是女人占得此爻，应该把情感放在家务上，放在照顾老人、丈夫和孩子身上，贞守家中，才会吉祥。
初六：系于金柅，贞吉。有攸注，见凶，羸豕孚踟躅。
象曰：系于金柅，柔道牵也。
经文意思是：系縛在金属的织具上，守正道吉祥。有所往，会遇到凶险，拴縛住的猪还要挣扎行动。
象辞意思是：系縛在金属的织具上，就是阴柔受阳刚的牵制。

初六：系于金柅，贞吉。有攸往，见凶。赢豕孚蹢躅。
《象传》曰：系于金柅，柔道牵也。
初得《巽》下一阴，女象也。《乾》为金，《巽》为木，木入金，成柅之象，故曰“金柅”。“金柅”，络丝之栿，女子所用，“系于金柅”，系丝也。“系”犹牵也，丝至柔，故《传》曰“柔道牵”。九家《易》曰：“丝系于柅，犹女系于男。”《高古录》云：晋武帝选女子有姿色者，以绯采系其臂，是其证也。按系者为系著不动，妇人之德，静为吉，动为凶，系而不动，则“贞吉”，“有攸往”，则“见凶”。妇人言不出阃，行不履阈，行将何往？有往则必不安于室也，凶可知矣。初六辰在未，上值柳，南宫侯曰，柳，其物为豕，故象豕；初《巽》阴柔，为之牝豕。群豕之中，牡强而牝弱，故曰“赢豕”。“蹢躅”，不安也，牝豕阴质而淫，躁动尤甚；初以柔承五刚，不系而往，故曰“赢豕孚蹢躅”。总之，丝为柔物，豕为阴兽，一失其系，丝必紊乱，豕必奔突，任其所往，势必消阳而剥刚。其蹢躅也，不待否剥之至，而已可预知矣。“孚”，信之先至者也。
【占】　问时运：目下运途，有所牵制，不可妄动，妄动必凶。
○　问战征：初爻为出军之始，《巽》象阴柔，兵力必弱，显见固守则吉，躁进则凶。
○　问营商：利坐贾，不利行商。
○　问功名：宜守旧而已。
○　问婚姻：九家《易》曰：“丝系于柅，犹女系于男”，正位夫内，故吉。
○　问家宅：此宅防有闺范不修之羞。
○　问疾病：此病是阴弱之症，宜安居静养。
○　问失物：必为绳索所系，即寻则得，过日不能得也。
○　问行人：在外必有女子牵连，不能即归。
○　问六甲：生女。
【例】　明治十八年十二月，鸟尾得庵居士来访，谈及东欧乱事，居士谓予曰：方今保加利亚、罗马尼亚两国暴动，关系全欧大局，子幸占其结果。筮得《姤》之《乾》。
断曰：《姤》者，遇也，是必率然相遇而启衅也。初爻属《巽》，一阴微弱，是必小国也。初应在四，四日“包无鱼”，是为包藏祸心，因而起凶者也，意者其在俄罗斯乎？在保罗二国，能各安疆界，共相修好，如《否》卦所云“其亡其亡，系于苞桑”，是“安不忘危，治不忘乱”，得其系而国本固矣，即爻辞“系于金柅，贞吉”之旨也。若无端而听外邦之唆惑，妄动干戈，势必立见凶灾，即爻辞所谓“有攸往，见凶”是也。“赢豕孚蹢躅”者。《说文》亥为豕，戌亥《乾》位，则犬占属《乾》，初动为《乾》，故有豕象。初本一阴为《巽》，《巽》柔弱，故为“赢豕”。《巽》为躁卦，豕又阴淫躁动，故曰“蹢躅”。谓二国庸弱暗昧，如豕之负涂，猖狂躁动，如豕之出互，徒见纷扰奔突而已。《巽》为风，《象传》曰“天下有风”，想因此二国开隙，恐天下亦有闻风骚动者矣。究其结末，当在上爻之时，上爻曰“姤其角”，为《姤》之终，上乃穷矣，穷上反下，二国庶反而修好也。鸟尾君闻之，殊有所悟。

Line-1
Legge: The first line, magnetic, shows how its subject should be kept like a carriage tied and fastened to a metal drag, in which case with firm correctness there will be good fortune. But if she move in any direction, evil will appear. She will be like a lean pig, which is sure to keep jumping about.
Wilhelm/Baynes: It must be checked with a brake of bronze. Perseverance brings good fortune. If one lets it take its course, one experiences misfortune. Even a lean pig has it in him to rage around.
Blofeld: The chariot wheel is held with a metal brake. Persistence in a righteous course brings good fortune. Those with a goal or destination in view will witness misfortune. However, even a lean pig is able to wiggle its trotters.
Liu: The cart is held in check by a metal brake. To continue this is good fortune. If one goes somewhere, one meets misfortune. The lean pig that wriggles does not go any farther.
Ritsema/Karcher: Attaching tending-towards a metallic chock. Trial: significant. Possessing directed going. Visualizing: pitfall. Ruining the pig, conforming: hoof dragging.
Shaughnessy: Tied to a metal ladder; determination is auspicious. If you have someplace to go, you will see inauspiciousness; the emaciated piglet returns helter-skelter.
Cleary (1): A metal brake is applied. It is good to be correct. If you go anywhere, you will see misfortune. An emaciated pig leaps in earnest.
Cleary (2): Arrested by a metal brake, etc.
Wu: Staying with a silk spinning machine will be auspicious if consistent. Going elsewhere will be foreboding. It is like a sow hopping around boars.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The metal drag describes the arrest of the magnetic line in its advancement. Wilhelm/Baynes: It is the way of the weak to be led.

Blofeld: The weak have to be dragged. Ritsema/Karcher: Supple tao haulingalong indeed. Cleary (2): The reining of the course of flexibility. Wu: To restrain the yin’s way.
Legge: Line one represents the Bete Noir of the figure. If it can be halted, firm government and order will prevail. If she can't be restrained, she will become disgusting and dangerous. It isn't enough for the carriage to be halted by the
metal drag -- it must also be chained fast to some steadfast object. Internal and external restraints must stop the evil influence from advancing.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: At the outset, the inferior man has wormed his way into the organization. He must be held in check energetically; otherwise he will grow disgusting and dangerous.
Wing: You have the opportunity to put limits upon an inferior element and prevent the growth of its influence. Do not be tempted to allow things to develop naturally. If you ignore it, it will not go away but will, instead, become a sizable problem. Act now.
Editor: Chetwynd, in his Dictionary of Symbols, says that a pig symbolizes the "dark side of the mother: (she) may be a monster or wild pig, with whom the Hero has to do battle at the appropriate time, in order to avoid being castrated or devoured by her." The pig in this line is symbolically identical with the fish in lines two and four: both represent a kind of untamed extravagance
now unfolding -- primal forces challenging our will and intent to protect and advance the Work. The situation demands all of our control to prevent deterioration or loss. This necessary ego function called willing is also the ability to say "no" to our drives, to ourselves and to others.
E.C. Whitmont -- The Symbolic Quest
A. Cease and desist -- bring this notion to a screeching halt right now!
B. “Yield not unto temptation.”

周易第四十四卦九二爻详解
九二爻辞
九二。包有鱼，无咎，不利宾。
象曰：包有鱼，义不及宾也。
白话文解释
九二：厨中有鱼。占得此爻，没有灾祸，但不利宴请宾客。
《象辞》说：厨中有鱼，有鱼无肉，乃小康之象，不宜大肆宴请宾客。

北宋易学家邵雍解
平：得此爻者，有财运，妇人则有怀孕之喜。做官的晋升有望。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：远避小人，自然有利。
财运：货物充足，利在手中。
家宅：女子主持；婚姻可成。
身体：池鱼之殃。

九二变卦

  九二爻动变得周易第33卦：天山遁。这个卦是异卦（下艮上乾）相叠。乾为天，艮为山。天下有山，山高天退。阴长阳消，小人得势，君子退隐，明哲保身，伺机救天下。

九二爻的哲学含义

姤卦第二爻，爻辞：九二：包有鱼，无咎；不利宾。爻辞释义
本爻辞的意思是：厨房里发现鱼，不会有灾祸；但不利于拿来宴请宾客。
从卦象上看，九二是阳爻居于柔位，处于下卦中位，是位刚中怀柔的正人君子，初六与九二亲比，二者又处于下卦之中，象征着青梅竹马的夫妻。可是初六与九四相应，九二只有对初六严加管束，并加深感情交流来牵系住初六，才会无
占得此爻者，不要让感情和女人来支配你，要保持对所爱者的控制能力，同时不要向每个人敞开胸怀。目前，你所爱的女人在困难的环境中依然坚持对你的爱，虽然有人追求她，但她并没有动心。
九二：包有鱼，无咎，不利宾。
象曰：包有鱼，义不及宾也。
经文意思是：包襄里有鱼，没有灾难，不利于招待宾客。
象辞意思是:包襄里有鱼，从道理上讲是不想给宾客吃的。

九二：包有鱼，无咎。不利宾。
《象传》曰：包有鱼，义不及宾也。
《乾》为包，《巽》为鱼，鱼阴物，谓初，二包之，故曰“包有鱼”。《剥》之“贯鱼”，即从《姤》之一鱼所生，能就《姤》之始而包之，故得无咎。二居内卦之中，当刚柔相遇之始，见其为柔，特以优容而并包之，不敢以激烈而启变，亦不至以姑息而养奸，斯诚御阴之善道也。“宾”，谓九四，四辰在午，上值张，石氏曰“张主赐宾客”；二“有鱼”，四则无之，是不及四也，故曰“不利宾”。《传》以“义不及宾”释之，“不及”者，即《彖传》不与长之义。千古御小人之法，莫善于使之不相及；予之以并生，不予之以渐长，则终无相及之时矣。《姤》初之“不利宾”，以二为之包也。
【占】　问时运：人生处世，安得相遇尽为君子？惟当曲意调护，不为小人所害，自得无咎。
○　问功名：鱼有化龙之象，“包有鱼”者，鱼已为其所包矣，则升腾可必也。“不利宾”，利必在己也。
○　问营商：“包”为包罗富有之象，众惟鱼矣。鱼亦有众多之象，主货物充盈，财利富厚。“不利宾”，为其利非外人所得窃取也。
○　问战征：马融曰，“鱼介鳞之物，兵象也”，鱼而能包，是必善用其兵者也。曰“不利宾”，宾即敌也，敌必可破矣。
○　问婚姻：鱼阴物，以阳包阴，姻事成矣。
○　问家宅：鱼为阴物，象取女子，此宅定是女子主政。
○　问疾病：防有池鱼殃及之灾。
○　问六甲：生女。
【例】　某甲来请占气运，筮得《姤》之《遁》。
断曰：此卦以一阴而上接五阳，必女子之不贞者也。今占得二爻，爻辞曰“包有鱼”，鱼阴物善败，“包有”者，是匿藏其物而有之也。又曰。“不利宾”，知宾亦尝欲利而有之，及有之而反为不利。不利于宾，其必利于主矣，想此物俨如鱼之在市，尔可有，我亦可有，本无定主也，利不利在包之者善自为之耳。
后据所闻，知某甲来占，非为气运，实为一女子耳。商人留妻于家，暂归故里，经四月而回，其妻以夫不在，与某甲私通，及其夫来，乃以其妻寄之于外国商人，诡云以预借外国人数百金，不得已以身抵之。其夫无力偿金，遂弃其妻而去，某甲乃得娶为己妻。后某甲死，财产悉归其妻所有，故爻象发现如此。

Line-2
Legge: The second line, dynamic, shows its subject with a wallet of fish. There will be no error. But it will not be good to let the subject of the first line go forward to the guests.
Wilhelm/Baynes: There is a fish in the tank. No blame. Does not further guests.

Blofeld: There is a fish in the bag -- no error! But it is of no advantage to the guests.
Liu: There is a fish in the kitchen. No blame, but there is no benefit to the guest.
Ritsema/Karcher: Enwrapping possessing fish. Without fault. Not
Harvesting: guesting.
Shaughnessy: The wrapper has fish; there is no trouble; not beneficial to have audience.
Cleary (1): When the fish is in the bag, there’s no fault. It is not advantageous to the visitor.
Cleary (2): There is a fish in the bag, etc.
Wu: There is a fish in the wrapping. This is blameless, but disadvantageous to friends.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: It is right for him not to allow the first line to get to the guests. Wilhelm/Baynes: It is a duty not to let it reach the guests. Blofeld: This implies that we are not dutiful to our guests. Ritsema/Karcher: Righteously not extending-to guesting indeed. Cleary (2): Duty does not extend to visitors. Wu: There is no reason to share it with friends.
Legge: The wallet of fish symbolizes line one, which has come into the possession of line two. With his strength he must repress her advance, and he therefore assumes the rulership of the hexagram. All of the other dynamic lines are merely guests. He is the first line of defense, and it is important that he should prevent line one from contaminating them. The commentaries say that the lesson of line two is that he should make the repression of the first line his exclusive work, and not allow it to pass on to any of the other lines.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The inferior element is contained not by force but by gentle means. No error will issue from such a course. However, contact of the inferior with those farther away must be prevented. Otherwise, the evil will spread.
Wing: Keep the lid on the situation. Gently control the weak spots and do not allow them to show. If they become obvious to others, things may get out of hand.

Editor: Fish are aquatic animals. If water symbolizes the realm of the emotions and the unconscious psyche in general, then any denizen of this world represents an autonomous psychic force dwelling below the level of consciousness. A contemporary alternative for "wallet of fish" might be: "can of worms." Line two has to deal with the can of worms, chaotic mess, or sticky problem of line one. The situation is favorable because the fish are contained in a wallet, tank or
wrapper -- not swimming free. Line two is a threshold guardian who must protect the forces above him from contamination by lower elements. (Compare the VII of Wands in the Tarot deck.) In some situations, the line can suggest comprehension of something (a theory, perhaps) that has some substance to it, but is not accurate enough to be acted upon in its present state. Without taboos there is no means for training the will or achieving discipline. The child's experience of being surrounded by taboos cannot be set down to an arbitrary high-handedness of parents or culture but is an indispensable necessity arising from a need of the psyche to develop adequate ego functioning.
E.C. Whitmont -- The Symbolic Quest
A. Protect the Work from contamination by inferior elements.
B. "Hold that line! Block that kick!"

周易第四十四卦九三爻详解详解
九三爻辞
九三。臀无肤，其行次且。厉，无大咎。
象曰：其行次且，行未牵也。
白话文解释
九三：臀部负伤，行走困难。占得此爻，有危险，但尚无大的灾难。
《象辞》说：行走困难，因为没有人扶持。

北宋易学家邵雍解
凶：得此爻者，多灾难。做官的会退步，或者被贬。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：因疑生危，稍安毋躁。
财运：犹豫不决，怎能获利。
家宅：修整家宅；迟缓可成。
身体：坐立不安，求医诊治。

九三变卦

  九三爻动变得周易第6卦：天水讼。这个卦是异卦（下坎上乾）相叠。同需卦相反，互为“综卦”。乾为刚健，坎为险陷。刚与险，健与险，彼此反对，定生争讼。争讼非善事，务必慎重戒惧。

九三爻的哲学含义

姤卦第三爻，爻辞：九三：臀无肤，其行次且；厉，无大咎。爻辞释义
次且：趔趄，指行走不稳的样子。
本爻辞的意思是：屁股上蹭破了皮，行进很困难；会遇到危险，但不会有大的灾祸。

九三：臀无肤，其行次且，厉，无大咎。
《象传》曰：其行次且，行未牵也。
《姤》与《夬》反对，《姤》之臀在三，《夬》之臀在四，《姤》三即《夬》四也。三居下体之上，《巽》为股，臀在股上，故三有臀象。《剥》四曰剥肤，是《剥》阳也，《姤》三亦为初阴所《剥》。故曰“无肤”。上卦为《乾》，《乾》为行，三居《乾》《巽》之间，柔未变也，故“其行次且”，有危心焉。《乾》之三“厉，无咎”，《姤》三化《巽》变柔，进退不果，其“次且”也，即其咎也。幸其由此以进，行将入《乾》，尚不失健行之性，故曰“无大咎”。《象传》以“行未牵”释之，“牵”者，牵制也，谓其行虽缓，尚能不失《乾》健，不为阴柔所牵制也。
【占】　问时运：气运柔弱，诸事迟疑，是以动辄有危。
○　问战征：欲进不进，因疑生危，不能得胜也。无大败亦幸矣。
○　问营商：贩运不快，安能获利？
○　问功名：尚须迟缓以待。
○　问婚姻：迟缓可成。
○　问家宅：此宅后面墙屋，定已倾圯矣，殊为可危，修葺斯可免咎。
○　问疾病：此病必是下体溃烂，行坐不安，治之无咎。
○　问讼事：防受笞杖。
○　问失物：物已损坏，迟之可得。
○　问六甲：生女。
【例】　有友请占一事，以决成否，筮得《姤》之《讼》。
断曰：《姤》者不期而遇，为其事之出于意外者也。今足下占得三爻，细玩爻象，臀在人身下体，所以安坐也，“无肤”，则坐不得安；“次且”者，昧于事机，欲进而不进，则行不能决，坐行两难，是以有厉也。其事终归不成，故亦“无大咎”。
【例】　明治二十八年六月，三浦中将奉命为朝鲜公使，临行占问朝鲜交际政策，筮得《姤》之《讼》，呈之内阁总理大臣。
断曰：卦名曰《姤》，《姤》，遇也。方今海禁大开，玉帛往来，正当万国会遇之时也。卦体五阳在上，一阴在下，是孤阴为群阳所制，有大国携服小邦之象。今当三浦中将出使朝鲜，为占两国交际方略，公使外行，则当以我为外卦，以朝鲜为内卦。内卦为《巽》，柔顺无力，可见朝鲜之弱小也。臀在身后，为隐伏，有后宫之象，主有妃妾擅权，侵害朝政。“无肤”，即剥肤，为切近之灾，致不能安坐深宫也。天下大势，正当改旧从新，力图富强，朝鲜因循旧习，欲改不改，是为“其行次且”也。国势之危，因此益甚，故“厉”。三居《巽》之终，为《乾》之始，将化柔而变刚，以内卦而从外。三又以二四为上下邻，朝鲜向属清国，四谓清也，以无包而起凶；二本《乾》体，谓我国也，以克包而无咎。朝鲜盛衰之机，历历可见。在我国交际之道，要亦不外是焉。
【例】　明治三十年，占伊藤侯爵气运，筮得《姤》之《讼》。
断曰：卦体《乾》上《巽》下，一阴生于五阳之下。阴小人也，浸藏浸长，五阳渐受其剥，而不自觉也。今占得三爻，曰“臀”，为人身下体；曰“无肤”，为剥伤已甚；曰“其行次且”，为刚而变柔，故欲进不进。是皆小人之情状也。在侯刚方端正，断不为小人所惑，惟此五阳中一有不察，将有授之以权，而小人遂得出而为难，凡侯所建善后之谋，必为之而败，所策力行之政，必为之而阻，即所谓“臀无肤，其行次且”是也。至此而侯必不安于位也，故曰“厉”；然侯德望素著，故“无大咎”。此为侯本年不得意之占也。
是年十月，侯果辞总理大臣之职。

Line-3
Legge: The third line, dynamic, shows one from whose buttocks the skin has been stripped so that he walks with difficulty. The position is perilous, but there will be no great error.
Wilhelm/Baynes: There is no skin on his thighs, and walking comes hard. If one is mindful of the danger, no great mistake is made.
Blofeld: His haunches have been flayed and he walks totteringly -- trouble, but no great error!
Liu: He loses skin on his thighs and walks with difficulty. Danger. No great mistake.
Ritsema/Karcher: The sacrum without flesh. One moves the resting-place moreover. Adversity. Without the great: fault.
Shaughnessy: The buttocks has (Sic) no skin; his movements are hither and thither; danger; there is no great trouble.
Cleary (1): No flesh on the buttocks, having trouble walking. If one is diligent in danger, there’s no great fault.

Cleary (2): With no flesh on the buttocks, the walk is halting. There is danger, but no great fault.
Wu: His buttocks have no skin. He hobbles along. He is in a precarious situation, but makes no big error.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: He walks with difficulty, but his steps have not yet been drawn into the course of the first line. Wilhelm/Baynes: He still walks without being led. Blofeld: Being able to walk without being dragged. [Despite rather severe trouble, for which we are not much to blame, we shall manage to get along somehow.] Ritsema/Karcher: Moving, not-yet hauling-along indeed.
Cleary (2): The walk is halting because it is unconnected. Wu: He does not lead the sheep away.
Legge: Compare this line with line four of the preceding hexagram. Line three is dynamic, but has gone beyond the central place and has no correlate above. He is cut off from the first line by the intervening second line, and therefore cannot do much against her. But since his aim is to repress her, there will be no great error.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Liu: The man is tempted to join with the inferior element. Circumstances prevent this, leaving him with a painful decision. The position is perilous, but a clear insight will prevent great errors.
Wing: Although you are tempted to fall into an inferior situation, you are held back in spite of yourself. You must now resolve this indecisive conflict. Give it a great deal of thought, gain some insight, and you can avoid mistakes.
Editor: Line four of hexagram number forty-three also describes "One from whom whose buttocks the skin has been stripped.” Since hexagram forty-four and hexagram forty-three are upside down images of each other, it is interesting to note that lines three and four swap places with very similar images. Note the
difference between them however -- in the present instance no blame is attached to the position. It is a good rendering of the stresses of temptation, of the discipline required to resist any compulsion. Sometimes the line suggests that you may only be able to affect the situation in a limited way. At its most neutral, it's an image of walking a tough path. But it is to be known that no one is regenerated without temptation; and that many temptations succeed, one after another. The reason is that regeneration is effected for an end; in order that the life of the old man may die, and the new life which is heavenly be insinuated. It is evident therefore that there must certainly be a conflict; for the life of the old

man resists and determines not to be extinguished; and the life of the new man can only enter where the life of the old is extinct.
Swedenborg -- Arcana Coelestia
A. A difficult position. Cope with care and sensitivity. Don't surrender to circumstances.
B. You have not yet yielded to temptation and can still escape its consequences.

九三爻辞前半段，与夬卦的九四爻辞前半段相同。九三以阳爻居刚位，有动向，但是上无正应，不安又动弹不得，就像人到中年尚未成婚的男人，十分需要爱情的慰藉。可是本卦之中只有初六是阴爻，代表女性。九三要去找初六，隔着九二，必遭到九二的阻拦。好在九三是阳爻居刚位，得位，能守正，对初六只是心宜而已，未采取行动。
占得此爻者，此刻处境艰难，正面临着危机，但只要你泰然处之便可避免介入毫无意义的人际纠纷之中。只要你不受环境和情感的支配，便可安然渡过难关。
九三：臀无肤，其行次且，厉，无大咎。
象曰：其行次且，行未牵也。
经文意思是：臀部受到重伤，走路艰难。有危险，但没有大的灾难。
象辞意思是走路艰难，是因为没有人搀故。
九三自然也想抢初六这个女子为妻，所以他与九二争夺，结果被打伤了，臀部的皮肤都没了，走路都十分困难。这就是抢婚中造成的危险。不过由于九三并没有因此而失掉性命，所以不会有大的灾难。

九四：包无鱼，起凶。
《象传》曰：无鱼之凶，远民也。
四入《乾》，复变而为《巽》，《巽》为鱼，鱼已为二所包，故“无鱼”。盖天包乎地，阳包乎阴，得所包而“含宏光大”，并育无害，此二之包所以“无咎”也。失所包，而鱼将吸浪扬波，顿生凶患，小人之施毒以害君子者，其凶由是而起也。《象传》以“远民”释之，“鱼”，犹民也，谓鱼之不可不包，犹民之不可或远。不以民为小人，而驱而远之，必以民为同胞，而亲而近之，斯民得兼包并育，何致有消阳之患哉！
【占】　问时运：刚变而柔，运途不正，气量浅狭，是以多凶。
○　问战征：主将才力微薄，不能包容众军，防有兵变之祸。
○　问营商：“包无鱼”，有囊里空虚之象，何以获利？
○　问功名：鱼喜得水，人喜得名，无鱼则水涸，无名则人穷，故凶。
○　问婚姻：婚姻之道，重在生育，“包无鱼”，言无胎孕也。凶。
○　问家宅：《象》曰“远民”，此宅必在民居相远之地，是孤村也。恐有不测之灾。
○　问疾病：鱼阴象，无鱼是阴已亏极，阳不能包，必凶。
○　问六甲：生女。
【例】　有友人来占气运，筮得之《姤》《巽》。
断曰：卦象为天下有风，风之起也，忽焉而来，忽焉而去，有不期而相遇者也。在人则为意外之遭逢也。今占得四爻，四爻入《乾》，《乾》为包，变而为《巽》，《巽》为鱼，四欲包鱼，而鱼先为二所有，故欲包而无鱼也。足下占问之意，想必有一事欲谋，乃其事已落他人之手。是足下运途不顺所致，足下还宜含容优待，斯可免凶，否则凶祸从此起矣。

Line-4
Legge: The fourth line, dynamic, shows its subject with his wallet, but no fish in it. This will give rise to evil.
Wilhelm/Baynes: No fish in the tank. This leads to misfortune.
Blofeld: No fish in the bag -- this gives rise to misfortune.
Liu: No fish in the kitchen -- that brings misfortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Enwrapping without fish. Rising-up: pitfall.
Shaughnessy: The wrapper has no fish; to be upright is inauspicious.
Cleary (1): No fish in the bag causes trouble.
Wu: There is no fish in the wrapping. If he raises an issue here, it will be foreboding.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: This is because he keeps himself aloof from the people.
Wilhelm/Baynes: The misfortune comes from his having kept aloof from the people. Blofeld: Misfortune in the sense of being remote from the people.
Ritsema/Karcher: Distancing the commoners indeed. Cleary (2): The misfortune of having no fish is that of alienating people. Wu: He is far from it.
Legge: The fourth line is the proper correlate of line one, but she has already locked horns with line two, leaving four to stand alone. It is implied that this isolation is owing to his impatience. If he could exercise forbearance, he would find a proper opportunity to check the first line's advance.
Wilhelm: Insignificant people must be tolerated in order to keep them well disposed. Then we can make use of them if we should need them. If we become alienated from them and do not meet them halfway, they turn their backs on us

and are not at our disposal when we need them. But this is our own fault. The fourth place is that of the minister. The six at the beginning stands here for the inferior, lowly people. There is a relationship of correspondence between the two lines. Furthermore, it would be the duty of the official to keep in touch with the people. But this has been neglected. The line belongs to the trigram Ch’ien, hence strives upward, away from the people below. By doing this it attracts misfortune to itself.
Anthony: No fish in the tank. Being brusque with others when their inferiors approach comes from our inferiors. In learning from the I Ching, our inferiors, which have been disciplined, become intolerant of undisciplined inferiors in others. This harshness, however, is not a good servant, although there is no great blame. It is best, however, to avoid alienating others by correcting the envious or superior attitude of our inferiors. If we have already alienated others, it is best to bear their dislike with composure.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man keeps himself aloof from the common people. He will lose their help when needed.
Wing: Do not become so aloof that you lose contact with people of lesser importance. You may need their help and support sometime in the future. If you do not communicate with them now, they will not be able to help you later. Misfortune then follows.
Editor: Psychologically interpreted, a fish symbolizes an entity dwelling in the watery unconscious: a drive, affect, complex or insight, perhaps. In line two, these creatures are confined in a wallet, tank or wrapping, but here they have escaped confinement (comprehension). Wilhelm/Baynes’ image of a “fish tank” (aquarium) suggests a container (form) without content: if the container (hypothesis) “doesn’t hold water,” no fish (viable truth) can live therein. Some kind of avoidance is indicated because the Confucian commentary tells us that this line, in the minister's place, is neglecting his duties to "the people," symbolized by line one. One way to be "aloof from the people" (either as inner
complexes or persons in the outer world) is to avoid dealing with them -- we flee difficult situations because we refuse to cope with the stresses they evoke. Sometimes this is wise policy, here perhaps it is cowardice: we have yielded to the
Temptation of denial: the Work is not furthered when we avoid its challenges. The line can sometimes suggest that you have misunderstood a previous oracle: you are "out of touch." It is not always realized that a large majority of those living in the physical universe are not really in contact with it at all but are wandering most of the time in a subjective dream world of their own.
Gareth Knight -- Qabalistic Symbolism

A. Something substantive is missing from your capacity to resolve the problem at hand. What are you avoiding?
B. "Out of touch" -- a lack of insight or imagination. Whatever “the people” may symbolize in your query, they are being neglected.
C. Form without content: Your hypothesis doesn’t hold water.

周易第四十四卦九四爻详解详解
九四爻辞
九四。包无鱼，起凶。
象曰：无鱼之凶，远民也。
白话文解释
九四：厨中无鱼。筮遇此爻，有所动作必遭凶险。
《象辞》说：厨中无鱼之爻，显示其人必遭凶险。因为九四阳爻而居阴位，像君王失其权位，脱离民众。

北宋易学家邵雍解
凶：得此爻者，多是非之扰，年老者不利于寿。做官的有损，多难。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：未得正运，开拓心胸。
财运：袋中无粮，无利可图。
家宅：僻处防灾；可能无后。
身体：虚火难治，极为凶险。

九四变卦

  九四爻动变得周易第57卦：巽为风。这个卦是同卦（下巽上巽）相叠，巽为风，两风相重，长风不绝，无孔不入，巽亦为顺、谦逊的态度和行为，可无往不利。

九四爻的哲学含义

姤卦第四爻，爻辞：九四：包无鱼，起凶。爻辞释义
本爻辞的意思是：厨房里没有鱼，会发生凶险。
从卦象上看，九四在全卦中间，可以对下爻称“包”，所包者为初六。但是初六已被九二所遇，并为九二所包，以致九四“包无鱼”。九四以阳爻居柔位，又处在上卦乾之中，具有好动、躁进的特性，若是去行动，则会发生凶祸。
《象》中这样分析本爻：无鱼之凶，远民也。这里指出：厨房里没有鱼而引起凶险，就好像君主失去百姓的支持，因为脱离民众，当然会发生凶险。
占得此爻者，可能会在感情上遇到挫折，可能你爱的人会背叛你，你应该把这看作是命运的安排，不要责备她，也不必过分伤悲。在做事的时候，要注意抑制自己的感情，多与身边的人真诚地交流和沟通，多为他人着想，不要失去他们的支持，这样才可以免除灾祸。
九四：包无鱼，起凶。
象曰：无鱼之凶，远民也。
经文意思是：包裹里没有了鱼，出现凶险。
象辞意思是：包裹里没有鱼的凶险，是因为远离臣民造成的。

九五：以杞包瓜，含章，有陨自天。
《象传》曰；九五含章，中正也。有陨自天，志不舍命也。
《巽》为杞，杞，柳也，可屈以包物。“杞”谓五，“瓜”谓初，杞刚而瓜柔，刚包柔，即“杞包瓜”也。《姤》者，五月之卦，瓜以五月生，杞以五月盛，包之，正及其时矣。及时而包之，柔者扬其花，刚者蕴其美，自觉章采之内含也。五秉中正之德，初得其包，亦归于中正，即《彖传》所谓“天地相遇，品物咸彰”者，其在此爻乎？“有陨自天”者，瓜之为物，不能经久，黄熟而陨，亦天为之也。在包之者，不肯委诸于天命，故于其陨也，若不胜其哀矜焉，故《传》以“志不舍命”释之。
【占】　问时运：运行中正，才力所及，自能包罗诸有，虽不言吉，吉可知矣。
○　问营商：生意虽不外木植瓜果等品，而包容甚广，自有大财可得。
○　问功名：五居尊位，功名自显，但进退荣辱，俱当安命。
○　问战征：堂堂之阵，正正之旗，王者之师也。逆者诛，顺者从，有包扫一切之势焉。
○　问婚姻：有瓜蓏绵绵之象。
○　问疾病：为热包寒之象。
○　问六甲：生女。
【例】　明治二十二年某月，横滨辩护士某来，曰：近日商人与地主，为争公共财产上权利起一大讼，此案向来纷争，迄今未见和解也，请烦一筮，以卜胜负。筮得《姤》之《鼎》。
断曰：《姤》者，一阴遇五阳之卦，阴欲长而阳抑之，盖阴长消阳，阳长消阴。卦与《夬》相反，所谓“反复其道”，一消一长，亦天运使然也。今足下为占争财讼事，而得此爻，知此财产为公共之物，甲可取，乙亦可取，犹之阴阳消长，彼此互有权也。爻辞曰“以杞包瓜”，就杞瓜而论，杞为植木，特立在上，瓜为蔓生，绵延在地，当以杞为商人，瓜为地主。所谓包者，宜以商人包容地主，地主之权利，藉商人调护而出，犹瓜之施于杞木而生也。“含章”者，谓所包之中，自有章华内含，以见利益之大也。“有陨自天”者，陨，落也，其终财产归结，要自有天数存焉，非人力所可强争也。孔子曰，得之不得，曰有命，劝两造亦各听命而已矣。

Line-5
Legge: The fifth line, dynamic, shows its subject as a medlar tree overspreading the gourd beneath it. If he keeps his brilliant qualities concealed, a good issue will descend from heaven.
Wilhelm/Baynes: A melon covered with willow leaves. Hidden lines. Then it drops down to one from heaven.
Blofeld: The medlar leaves wrapping the melon hide its beauty. Something falls from heaven. [This is more or less equivalent to hiding our light under a bushel.]
Liu: The melon lies under the medlar tree. The glory is hidden. Something (blessing) comes down from heaven.
Ritsema/Karcher: Using osier, enwrapping melons. Containing composition. Possessing tumbling, originating-from heaven.
Shaughnessy: With jealousy wrap the gourd; it contains a pattern; something drops from the heavens.
Cleary (1): Wrapping a melon in river willow. Hiding embellishments, being detached, one realizes the celestial self.
Cleary (2): Wrapping a melon in river willows, containing brilliance, there is a descent from heaven.
Wu: He uses willow branches to wrap a melon to protect its beautiful patterns, as if a mandate had come from heaven.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: His qualities are kept concealed because of his central and correct position. His aim does not neglect the ordinances of heaven. Wilhelm/
Baynes: It is in the middle and correct. Because the will does not give up what has been ordained. Blofeld: What is willed is consonant with heaven's decrees.
Ritsema/Karcher: Centering correctness indeed. Purpose, not stowing-away

fate indeed. Cleary (2): Balanced correctly. Aspiration not disregarding destiny.
Wu: He is central and correct. He does not intend to compromise his prerogatives.
Legge: Line five is dynamic and in the ruler's place. His relationship to the first line is like that of a forest tree to a gourd growing beneath it. Force must not be used to repress or destroy the growth of line one. He must restrain himself and keep his excellence concealed. Then heaven will set a seal to his virtue. While mindful of his task of repressing the growth of the first line, he keeps his wise plans concealed until the time for carrying them into execution. Then comes the successful stroke of his policy as if it were directly from heaven.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man is well disposed toward his subordinates, tolerates their weaknesses, and protects their welfare. He is modest about his talents and does not resort to outward show or tireless admonition.
Wing: The superior person now relies upon the correctness of his principles and the force of his character to achieve an effect. He works quietly from within. His will is consonant with the direction of the cosmos, and he attains his aim.
Von Franz: “Hidden lines” means in China a pattern of the Tao which man does not yet know and which, when it becomes suddenly conscious to him after a ripening process in the unconscious, is compared with the falling of a ripe fruit from above. So the oracle evidently means that the melon represents a latent conscious order within the darkness, which suddenly and unexpectedly becomes manifest. [The Dream of Descartes]
Editor: Most of the translators render "gourd” as "melon” --a fruit described as beautiful or glorious. The image is of a fruit ripening unseen beneath sheltering leaves. (Every gardener has experienced the surprise of finding a large fruit or vegetable which grew hidden in such a fashion.) Ritsema/Karcher say the ideogram contains the meanings of: "enfold and self, a fetus in the womb.”
Wilhelm says: "We entrust the fruit in our care entirely to its own natural development. Then it ripens of its own accord.” The line usually suggests the promise of future reward or sometimes can be a warning not to interfere with a natural process. A fruit plucked before maturity rots and gets spoiled. A wound bleeds if you remove the scab before time, but when the wound is healed it drops off of itself.
Sri Ramakrishna
A. Don't meddle in a growth process -- allow the situation to develop naturally.

周易第四十四卦九五爻详解详解
九五爻辞
九五。以杞包瓜，含章，有陨自天。
象曰：九五含章，中正也；有陨自天，志不舍命也。
白话文解释
九五：匏瓜缠着杞树生长，隐印的瓜纹很好看。忽然从头顶上方掉下一个瓜来。
《象辞》说：九五爻辞讲的隐含文彩，即指九五之爻居上卦中位，像人秉含中正之德。自天上殒落，说明高尚的志行不得施行，故舍命而殉志。

北宋易学家邵雍解
平：得此爻者，会遇到贵人提携，有意外之喜，妇人有怀孕之喜。做官的会为栋梁之才。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：心胸开阔，功名自显。
财运：木类产品，应有大利。
家宅：中正之居；婚姻有吉。
身体：热中带寒，速求良医。

九五变卦

  九五爻动变得周易第50卦：火风鼎。这个卦是异卦（下巽上离）相叠。燃木煮食，化生为熟，除旧布新的意思。鼎为重宝大器，三足稳重之象。煮食，喻食物充足，不再有困难和困扰。在此基础上宜变革，发展事业。

九五爻的哲学含义

姤卦第五爻，爻辞：九五：以杞包瓜，含章，有陨自天。爻辞释义
杞：指杞树叶子。陨：陨落，降落。
本爻辞的意思是：用杞树枝叶包起瓜果，象征内心怀着美好的品德，吉祥自天而降。
从卦象上看，九五以阳爻居君位，得位守中，可以笼罩全卦，稳定大局。
《象》中这样解释本爻：九五含章，中正也；有陨自天，志不舍命也。这里指出：九五内心怀着美好的品德，表明尽管处在最尊贵的地位，却能够坚守中道，心地纯正。这样一来，其相遇的情形也是最完美的，用不着上下奔忙，就能与上天恩赐的福佑相遇。充分说明只要不违天命，就能有好的遇合。

上九：姤其角，吝，无咎。
《象传》曰：姤其角，上穷吝也。
上九辰在戌，得乾气，《乾》为首，位居首上，故曰“角”；遇而在上，遇亦极矣，故曰“姤其角”。角善触，遇之而触，不如遇之而包也，触之，故“吝”；然触亦不害其正，故“无咎”。《象传》以“上穷”释之，凡上穷必返下，《剥》之穷上返下，而“硕果不食”，一阳乃“来复”焉。“姤其角”，正穷上返下之象，故虽吝无咎。圣人之于阴，欲以并生，不欲其浸长，上之“姤其角”，令其穷而自返也。
【占】　问时运：运至于上，运亦穷矣。
○　问营商：角逐者争利也，“姤其角”，为能得其首利也。盖吝在商人，“吝，无咎”焉。
○　问功名：有头角峥嵘之兆。世传魁星有角，“姤其角”是遇魁星也，功名大利。
○　问战征：角力角胜，皆有战象。角之字为刀下用，此战大有杀戮，是穷兵之祸也。
○　问疾病：想头角之上患疮，医治无咎。
○　问婚姻：上居《乾》之极，上穷返下，必是老夫而求女妻也。
○　问失物：物本在高处，穷而返下，须就低处寻之，可得。
○　问六甲：上穷而返，生男。
【例】　一日有友人来曰：仆与某贵显，素来亲厚，大蒙恩遇。自贵显欧美归朝，交情忽疏，偶请面谒，遂至见拒，余实不知因何获咎也。请为一占。筮得《姤》之《大过》。
断曰：《姤》者“女壮”之卦，女子之言，最易惑听，朋友交情，为妇言所谗间者，往往多有。今占得姤上爻，《姤》本女象，其义为遇，爻辞曰“姤其角”，角善触，是必于相遇之际，有触其怒者，彼妇遂挟其怨恨，设其计以相抵触，进谗于贵显，此贵显与足下之疏远，所由来也。“无咎”者，以角在上爻，上穷返下，贵显必久当自返，知其为谗，返而思旧，当与足下复寻旧好也。
某氏闻之，顿有所悟，曰：仆向于贵显他出，屡访其邸，一日见渠夫人，因事规劝，致拂其意，既而贵显归，度彼妇畏仆告知，遂设计谗间，谅事所必有也。后悟贵显有云，我家之事，非外人所可干涉，知此言非无因而来也。今得其占，其疑乃释，彼妇可吝，在我固无愧焉。

Line-6
Legge: The sixth line, dynamic, shows its subject receiving others on his horns. There will be occasion for regret, but there will be no error.
Wilhelm/Baynes: He comes to meet with his horns. Humiliation. No blame.
Blofeld: It rubs against things with its horns -- regret, but no error! [We shall regret our inability to progress, even though we are not at fault.]
Liu: Encountering on the horns. Humiliation, but no mistake.
Ritsema/Karcher: Coupling: one's horns. Exhausting abashment above indeed.
Shaughnessy: Meeting its horns; distress; there is no trouble.
Cleary (1): Meeting the horn is humiliating. No blame.
Wu: He tries to meet the yin with his horns and is embarrassed. No error.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: He is exhausted at his greatest height, and there will be cause for regret. Wilhelm/Baynes: At the top it comes to an end, hence humiliation. Blofeld: Regret owing to the complete exhaustion of our powers.
Ritsema/Karcher: Exhausting abashment above indeed. Cleary (2): The humiliation of coming to an impasse above. Wu: This is a desperate move from the highest position.
Legge: The K'ang-hsi editors say: "The subject of this line is like an officer who has withdrawn from the world. He can accomplish no service for the time, but his person is removed from the workers of disorder. He does nothing to repress their advance, but keeps himself from evil communication with them."
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: After his retirement from the everyday world, the man rebuffs the low and the inferior who come to him. He is blamed and reproached for his noble pride. Since he is no longer active in the world, he is able to bear criticisms with composure and continues to speak forthrightly without error.
Wing: Even if you withdraw from an inferior element and reject it openly, it will still be there. You will be thought proud and aloof. It would be more practical and less humiliating to retreat quietly. Nevertheless, you are not to blame for your actions.

Editor: Line six meets line one on its horns -- not as a direct attack as much as a petulant warning. (One is reminded of how an adult animal might nip or butt an importunate youngster in irritation, but with no real intent to inflict harm.) It's an image of a harsh rebuff which, though impolite, is not necessarily unjustified. Note that although Confucius emphasizes that there will be cause for regret, the original line ends with "no blame." Since the Self seldom shows much consideration for the ego's feelings, we must assume that there are situations when the ego may do likewise with others. At its most neutral, we have an image of exhausted irritability: unpleasant perhaps, but understandable. I am a rough man, born in a rough country; I have been brought up in pine-woods, and I may have inherited some knots. That which seems to me polite and amiable may appear unpolished to another, and what seems silk in my eyes may be but homespun to you.
Paracelsus
A. Fatigue and petulance prevent resolution of the matter at hand. Withdraw from contention for now. Perhaps you are trying too hard to force (or grasp) the issue.
B. An inferior force repulsed.
C. Could be an "attitude problem." You're tired, cross, impatient, (maybe scared), and being excessively defensive about your position.
D. There's no law that requires you to suffer fools gladly. way.”

E. A plausible (albeit regrettable) response to being “rubbed the wrong
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