Kou / Coming to Meet

above:Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below:Sun The Gentle, Wind

The sixth [nine], undivided, shows its subject receiving others on his horns. There will be occasion for regret, but there will be no error.

The symbolism of line 6 is difficult to understand, though the meaning of what is said is pretty clear. The Khang-hsi editors observe: - 'The subject of this line is like an officer who has withdrawn from the world.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.