Hexagram 43 · line 4
Breakthrough
夬Guài
The buttocks have no skin, and walking is halting. Led like a sheep, regret vanishes. Words are heard but not trusted.
Line statement
九四
臀无膚，其行次且。牽羊悔亡，聞言不信。
The buttocks have no skin, and walking is halting. Led like a sheep, regret vanishes. Words are heard but not trusted.
Line 4 moves painfully and hears guidance it does not trust. Once that firm line yields, outer Lake becomes Water and Hexagram 5 places waiting above Heaven.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes