Hexagram 16 · line 4
Enthusiasm
豫Yù
The source of enthusiasm: much is gained. Do not doubt. Friends gather around.
Line statement
九四
由豫，大有得。勿疑，朋盍簪。
The source of enthusiasm: much is gained. Do not doubt. Friends gather around.
Line 4 is the source of shared enthusiasm and the figure’s only firm place. Its confidence allows the other lines to gather around it. Changing this line to yielding produces the six broken lines of Hexagram 2.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes