Hexagram 15 · line 4
Modesty
謙Qiān
Nothing is without benefit. Modesty is extended in every movement.
Line statement
六四
无不利，撝謙。
Nothing is without benefit. Modesty is extended in every movement.
Line 4 sits immediately above the mountain and extends modesty into the outer trigram; firming it changes upper earth to thunder and forms Hexagram 62.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches 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