Hexagram 33 · line 1
Retreat
遯Dùn
At the tail of retreat: danger. Do not go forward.
Line statement
初六
遯尾，厲，勿用有攸往。
At the tail of retreat: danger. Do not go forward.
Line 1 is the tail of retreat, closest to what follows. Making the bottom line firm turns Mountain into Fire and produces Hexagram 13, Fellowship beneath 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