Judgment
— I Ching · classical
女壮，勿用取女。
Coming to meet. The maiden is powerful. One should not marry such a maiden.
Image
— Great Image
天下有风，姤，后以施命诰四方。
Under heaven, wind: the image of coming to meet. Thus the prince acts when disseminating their commands and proclaiming them to the four quarters of heaven.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Initial Six · 初六
⚋ yin
系于金柅，贞吉。有攸往，见凶。羸豕孚蹢躅。
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 itself to rage around.
Brake the rising danger with a bronze chock (xi yu jin ni) — the moment it appears. Let it go and even a thin pig will rampage.
Nine in the second · 九二
⚊ yang
包有鱼，无咎，不利宾。
There is a fish in the tank. No blame. Does not further guests.
The contained risk is held (a fish in your tank); no blame, but do not expose it to outside guests.
Nine in the third · 九三
⚊ yang
臀无肤，其行次且，厉，无咎。
There is no skin on the buttocks, and walking comes hard. If one is mindful of the danger, no great mistake is made.
Awkward, painful steps; with full awareness of the risk, no major fault.
Nine in the fourth · 九四
⚊ yang
包无鱼，起凶。
No fish in the tank. This gives rise to misfortune.
Lost containment of the risk; out of touch with the base; misfortune begins.
Nine in the fifth · 九五
⚊ yang
以杞包瓜，含章，有陨自天。
A melon covered with willow leaves. Hidden lines. Then it drops down to one from heaven.
Sweet melon wrapped in willow leaves — high virtue conceals and contains the temptation; a blessing falls from heaven.
Nine at the top · 上九
⚊ yang
姤其角，吝，无咎。
He comes to meet with his horns. Humiliation. No blame.
Met only at the horns — too high, too detached. Shame, but no blame; one stayed apart at least.
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Quiet rise of factional cliques inside the firm, slight technical-secret leak, the first stray quality complaint. Execute zero-tolerance — kill it in the cradle.
Psychology & Cognition
Beware temptation, especially the 'lucky' kind that arrives wrapped neatly. Defuse small, dark desires before they grow.
Decision Guidance
Bronze chock at the very first sign (line 1). If you lose containment (line 4: 'no fish in tank'), the cascade begins.
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
James Clear and BJ Fogg on intervening at the smallest possible behavioral signal; the 'broken windows' theory of preventive correction; Nassim Taleb on the asymmetry of small, repeated risks; the Stoic 'premeditate the temptation' (proorasis).
· All texts here come from public-domain editions of the I Ching and supporting commentary.
· Anygua does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· The same input via the same method will always reproduce the same hexagram — verifiable below.