Kou / Coming to Meet

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

The second [nine], undivided, shows its subject with a wallet of fish. There will be no error. But it will not be well to let (the subject of the first line) go forward to the guests.

The 'wallet of fish' under line 2 is supposed to symbolize the subject of line 1. It has come into the possession of the subject of 2, by virtue of the meaning of the name of Kau, which I have pointed out. With his strength therefore he can repress the advance of 1. He becomes in fact 'the lord of the hexagram', and all the other strong lines are merely guests; and especially it is important that he should prevent 1 from approaching them. This is a common explanation of what is said under the second line. It seems farfetched; but I can neither find nor devise anything better.