Hexagram 38 · line 1
Opposition
睽Kuí
Regret vanishes. Do not pursue the lost horse; it returns by itself. Meeting a bad person brings no fault.
Line statement
初九
悔亡。喪馬勿逐，自復。見惡人，无咎。
Regret vanishes. Do not pursue the lost horse; it returns by itself. Meeting a bad person brings no fault.
Line 1 does not chase the lost horse or avoid meeting the bad person. The source allows contact despite opposition. Changing the firm base to yielding makes Water below Fire, Hexagram 64.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes