Hexagram 1 · line 4
The Creative
乾Qián
The dragon may leap from the depths. No fault.
Line statement
九四
或躍在淵，无咎。
The dragon may leap from the depths. No fault.
The possibility of a leap remains unresolved. The issue is whether to advance or remain in the depths as circumstances allow, rather than to force ascent because the line is higher. Changing this first line of the outer trigram produces Hexagram 9.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes