Hexagram 17 · line 4
Following
隨Suí
Gaining a following: misfortune even with constancy. With sincerity on the right course and clear understanding, what fault could there be?
Line statement
九四
隨有獲，貞凶。有孚在道，以明，何咎？
Gaining a following: misfortune even with constancy. With sincerity on the right course and clear understanding, what fault could there be?
The firm fourth line gains adherents directly below the ruler. Even a correct course can threaten that relationship unless loyalty and intentions are clear. Changing Line 4 to yielding turns upper lake to water and produces Hexagram 3.
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