Hexagram 31 · line 1
Influence
咸Xián
Influence reaches the big toe.
Line statement
初六
咸其拇。
Influence reaches the big toe.
Influence first reaches the big toe at Line 1, the body's first point of motion. Changing the bottom line makes Fire below Lake and yields Hexagram 49.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes