Hexagram 12 · line 1
Stagnation
否Pǐ
Pulling up cogon grass brings its tangled roots and the whole cluster. Constancy is favorable. Success.
Line statement
初六
拔茅茹，以其彙，貞吉亨。
Pulling up cogon grass brings its tangled roots and the whole cluster. Constancy is favorable. Success.
A connected cluster of roots occupies the yielding bottom line. Firming this place turns lower earth into thunder and changes the figure to Hexagram 25.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes