Hexagram 53 · line 4
Development
漸Jiàn
The wild goose advances to a tree and may find a level branch. No fault.
Line statement
六四
鴻漸于木，或得其桷，无咎。
The wild goose advances to a tree and may find a level branch. No fault.
A goose is not at home in a tree, though the line allows that it may find a level branch. Changing Line 4 makes Heaven above Mountain, Hexagram 33. The possible perch and the theme of retreat both raise the question of where to rest.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches 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