Hexagram 55 · line 1
Abundance
豐Fēng
Meeting a matching lord. Though equal in standing, there is no fault. Going wins esteem.
Line statement
初九
遇其配主，雖旬，无咎，往有尚。
Meeting a matching lord. Though equal in standing, there is no fault. Going wins esteem.
Line 1 meets a matching lord; the traditional reading takes 旬 here as equality. Its change makes Mountain below Thunder, Hexagram 62. The comparison sets mutual standing beside the care for small matters in that figure.
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