Hexagram 16 · line 1
Enthusiasm
豫Yù
Proclaiming one’s delight. Misfortune.
Line statement
初六
鳴豫，凶。
Proclaiming one’s delight. Misfortune.
The first line boasts of its delight because it relies on strong support above. The warning concerns that overconfidence. Changing Line 1 to firm turns lower earth to thunder and produces Hexagram 51.
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