Hexagram 47 · line 1
Oppression
困Kùn
The buttocks are pressed against a tree stump. One enters a dark valley and sees no one for three years.
Line statement
初六
臀困于株木，入于幽谷，三歲不覿。
The buttocks are pressed against a tree stump. One enters a dark valley and sees no one for three years.
A tree stump and a dark valley make isolation bodily and prolonged at Line 1. Changing it replaces lower Water with Lake, forming Hexagram 58. Repeated Lake offers a contrasting image of exchange, while the present line’s isolation remains part of the reading.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match 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