Hexagram 12 · line 4
Stagnation
否Pǐ
There is a mandate. No fault. Those of like kind share in the blessing.
Line statement
九四
有命，无咎，疇離祉。
There is a mandate. No fault. Those of like kind share in the blessing.
The mandate appears at Line 4, where the outer heaven trigram begins and like kinds share the blessing. If this line yields, heaven changes to wind and the figure is Hexagram 20.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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