Hexagram 32 · line 1
Duration
恆Héng
Digging too deeply for duration. Constancy brings misfortune; nothing is beneficial.
Line statement
初六
浚恆，貞凶，无攸利。
Digging too deeply for duration. Constancy brings misfortune; nothing is beneficial.
Line 1 digs for permanence before a course has begun. Changing the broken base to firm turns lower Wind into Heaven and yields Hexagram 34, Thunder above Heaven.
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