Hexagram 36 · line 1
Darkening of the Light
明夷Míng Yí
Light is wounded in flight, and its wings hang down. The exemplary person travels without food for three days. There is somewhere to go, though the host voices criticism.
Line statement
初九
明夷于飛，垂其翼。君子于行，三日不食。有攸往，主人有言。
Light is wounded in flight, and its wings hang down. The exemplary person travels without food for three days. There is somewhere to go, though the host voices criticism.
Wounded flight begins at Line 1, where lower Fire first meets the ground. Changing that firm base to yielding makes Mountain below Earth and gives Hexagram 15, a low and bounded place.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches 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