Hexagram 61 · line 1
Inner Truth
中孚Zhōng Fú
Careful judgment is favorable. Another aim brings no peace.
Line statement
初九
虞吉，有它不燕。
Careful judgment is favorable. Another aim brings no peace.
Line 1 favors careful judgment about trust, while a competing aim disturbs peace. Its change makes Water below Wind, Hexagram 59. The contrast pairs undivided attention with dispersion.
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.
One line changes