Hexagram 10 · line 4
Treading
履Lǚ
Treading on the tiger's tail with fear and caution. In the end, favorable.
Line statement
九四
履虎尾，愬愬，終吉。
Treading on the tiger's tail with fear and caution. In the end, favorable.
Fearful treading occurs at Line 4, just inside the upper heaven trigram. When this firm line yields, heaven becomes wind and Hexagram 61 results.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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