Hexagram 10 · line 1
Treading
履Lǚ
Treading plainly and going forward. No fault.
Line statement
初九
素履往，无咎。
Treading plainly and going forward. No fault.
Plain treading begins at Line 1, which is firm. Its change to yielding turns the lower lake trigram into water, producing Hexagram 6.
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