Hexagram 8 · line 1
Holding Together
比Bì
Joining through trust. No fault. Trust fills an earthen jar; in the end, further good fortune comes.
Line statement
初六
有孚比之，无咎。有孚盈缶，終來有它吉。
Joining through trust. No fault. Trust fills an earthen jar; in the end, further good fortune comes.
Trust fills an earthen jar at the yielding bottom line, before joining has public form. Firming this line changes the lower earth trigram to thunder and produces Hexagram 3.
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