Hexagram 13 · line 1
Fellowship
同人Tóng Rén
Fellowship at the gate. No fault.
Line statement
初九
同人于門，无咎。
Fellowship at the gate. No fault.
The open gate stands at Line 1, before fellowship narrows into an inner group; turning this firm line yielding changes lower fire to mountain and produces Hexagram 33.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes