Hexagram 24 · line 4
Return
復Fù
Walking in the midst, one returns alone.
Line statement
六四
中行獨復。
Walking in the midst, one returns alone.
Line 4 is the first line of outer Earth. Making it firm turns that upper trigram into Thunder and produces Hexagram 51, doubled Thunder rather than a single movement below still ground.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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