Hexagram 2 · line 1
The Receptive
坤Kūn
Frost underfoot; hard ice follows.
Line statement
初六
履霜，堅冰至。
Frost underfoot; hard ice follows.
Frost marks the bottom line, the first visible trace of hardening. When that line turns firm, Hexagram 24 appears with one unbroken line below five yielding lines.
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