Hexagram 3 · line 4
Difficulty at the Beginning
屯Zhūn
The horse team turns back, and a marriage bond is sought. Going forward is favorable; nothing is unfavorable.
Line statement
六四
乘馬班如，求婚媾，往吉，无不利。
The horse team turns back, and a marriage bond is sought. Going forward is favorable; nothing is unfavorable.
Hesitation here is followed by seeking a bond: the same stalled movement seen elsewhere in the hexagram can take another course when help is sought. The line links advance with an approach to others. Changing Line 4 produces Hexagram 17.
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.
One line changes