Hexagram 34 · line 4
The Power of the Great
大壯Dà Zhuàng
Constancy is favorable, and regret vanishes. The fence opens without catching the horns; strength rests in the axle mount of a great cart.
Line statement
九四
貞吉，悔亡。藩決不羸，壯于大輿之輹。
Constancy is favorable, and regret vanishes. The fence opens without catching the horns; strength rests in the axle mount of a great cart.
At Line 4, the fence opens and the cart carries the force that the ram could not. The line's change makes Earth above Heaven, Hexagram 11, with rising and descending forces in exchange.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes