Hexagram 35 · line 1

Progress

晉Jìn

Advancing, then checked. Constancy is favorable. Though not trusted, remaining at ease leaves no fault.

Line statement

初六

晉如,摧如,貞吉。罔孚,裕无咎。

Advancing, then checked. Constancy is favorable. Though not trusted, remaining at ease leaves no fault.

Advance is checked at Line 1 before recognition has taken hold. A firm bottom turns lower Earth into Thunder and produces Hexagram 21, Thunder below Fire.

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

Moving to 21 · Biting Through