Hexagram 7 · line 4
The Army
師Shī
The army withdraws to camp. No fault.
Line statement
六四
師左次，无咎。
The army withdraws to camp. No fault.
Withdrawal preserves the army when advance is unsound; Zhu Xi reads the leftward camp as a retreat. Changing Line 4 from yielding to firm turns upper earth to thunder and produces Hexagram 40.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes