Hexagram 37 · line 1
The Family
家人Jiā Rén
Setting limits within the household. Regret vanishes.
Line statement
初九
閑有家，悔亡。
Setting limits within the household. Regret vanishes.
Line 1 sets the household boundary before its habits spread. When the firm base yields, lower Fire becomes Mountain and the result is Hexagram 53, gradual movement below Wind.
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.
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