Hexagram 18 · line 4
Work on What Has Been Spoiled
蠱Gǔ
Indulging what the father has spoiled. Continuing in this direction meets difficulty.
Line statement
六四
裕父之蠱，往見吝。
Indulging what the father has spoiled. Continuing in this direction meets difficulty.
Line 4 allows inherited disorder too much room instead of repairing it. The warning concerns what continued indulgence leaves unresolved. Changing this line to firm turns upper mountain to fire and produces Hexagram 50.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches 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