Hexagram 60 · line 1
Limitation
節Jié
Not going out beyond the inner courtyard. No fault.
Line statement
初九
不出戶庭，无咎。
Not going out beyond the inner courtyard. No fault.
Line 1 stays within the household courtyard and receives no fault. Once it moves, the figure is Hexagram 29: lake becomes water below water, placing this close boundary beside repeated danger.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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