Hexagram 62 · line 4
Preponderance of the Small
小過Xiǎo Guò
No fault. Without going too far, one meets what is needed. Going is dangerous; be on guard. Do not remain fixed in this course.
Line statement
九四
无咎，弗過遇之。往厲必戒，勿用永貞。
No fault. Without going too far, one meets what is needed. Going is dangerous; be on guard. Do not remain fixed in this course.
Line 4 warns against dangerous advance and against holding one course permanently. The traditional explanation calls for responding to what circumstances require. Its change makes Earth above Mountain, Hexagram 15, placing this flexibility beside modesty.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes