Kou / Coming to Meet
above:Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below:Sun The Gentle, Wind
Kau shows a female who is bold and strong. It will not be
good to marry (such) a female.
Overall Meaning
Meeting, intercourse, the symbol of coming to meet
The single, divided, line at the top of Kwai, the hexagram of the third
month, has been displaced, and Khien has ruled over the fourth month of the
year. But the innings of the divided line commence again; and here we have
in Kau the hexagram of the fifth month, when light and heat are supposed both
to begin and to be less.
In that divided line Wan saw the symbol of the small or unworthy man,
beginning to insinuate himself into the government of the country. His
influence, if left unchecked, would go on to grow, and he would displace one
good man after another, and fill the vacant seats with others like-minded
with himself. The object of Wan in his Thwan, therefore, was to enjoin
resistance to the encroachment of this bad man.]
Kau is defined as giving the idea of suddenly and casually encountering
or meeting with. So does the divided line appear all at once in the figure.
And this significance of the name rules in the interpretation of the lines,
so as to set on one side the more common interpretation of them according to
the correlation; showing how the meaning of the figures was put into them
from the minds of Wan and Tan in the first place. The sentiments of the text
are not learned from them; but they are forced and twisted, often
fantastically, and made to appear to give those sentiments forth of
themselves.
Here the first line, divided, where it ought to be the contrary, becomes
the symbol of a bold, bad woman, who appears unexpectedly on the scene, and
wishes to subdue or win all the five strong lines to herself. No one would
contract a marriage with such a female; and every good servant of his country
will try to repel the entrance into government of every officer who can be so
symbolized.