Hexagram 35 · line 4

Progress

晉Jìn

Advancing like a large rat. Constancy meets danger.

Line statement

九四

晉如鼫鼠,貞厲。

Advancing like a large rat. Constancy meets danger.

The large rat enters outer Fire at Line 4. When that line yields, Fire becomes Mountain and the result is Hexagram 23, Mountain above Earth.

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

Moving to 23 · Splitting Apart