Hexagram 33 · line 4
Retreat
遯Dùn
Retreat despite attachment. Favorable for the exemplary person; a petty person cannot do it.
Line statement
九四
好遯，君子吉，小人否。
Retreat despite attachment. Favorable for the exemplary person; a petty person cannot do it.
Line 4 is drawn toward its corresponding first line but can retreat despite that attachment. The contrast concerns the capacity to let go, not whether retreat was imposed. Changing Line 4 gives Wind above Mountain, Hexagram 53.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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