Hexagram 18 · line 1
Work on What Has Been Spoiled
蠱Gǔ
Repairing what the father has spoiled. With a capable son, the deceased father is without fault. Danger, then a favorable end.
Line statement
初六
幹父之蠱，有子，考无咎，厲終吉。
Repairing what the father has spoiled. With a capable son, the deceased father is without fault. Danger, then a favorable end.
The opening line repairs damage inherited from the father, allowing the son’s work to restore the family’s standing. Changing Line 1 to firm turns lower wind to heaven and produces Hexagram 26.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match 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