Hexagram 49 · line 4
Revolution
革Gé
Regret disappears. Trust is present in changing the mandate. Favorable.
Line statement
九四
悔亡，有孚改命，吉。
Regret disappears. Trust is present in changing the mandate. Favorable.
The passage links a changed mandate with trust and the disappearance of regret. Changing Line 4 makes Water above Fire, Hexagram 63. The comparison places a decision to change beside an image of completion.
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