Hexagram 7 · line 1
The Army
師Shī
The army sets out under rules. Without sound order, misfortune follows.
Line statement
初六
師出以律，否臧凶。
The army sets out under rules. Without sound order, misfortune follows.
Rules are established at the yielding bottom line before the host sets out; firming it changes lower water to lake and produces Hexagram 19.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match 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