Hexagram 1 · line 1
The Creative
乾Qián
A dragon remains hidden. Do not act.
Line statement
初九
潛龍勿用。
A dragon remains hidden. Do not act.
The hidden dragon has capacity before it has a suitable field of action. The restraint belongs to this stage of the image, not to a permanent judgment of ability. Changing the bottom line produces Hexagram 44.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes