Hexagram 2 · line 4
The Receptive
坤Kūn
A sack drawn closed: no fault, no praise.
Line statement
六四
括囊，无咎无譽。
A sack drawn closed: no fault, no praise.
The closed sack sits at Line 4, the threshold of the outer trigram. A firm line in that place gives Hexagram 16; the other five lines remain yielding.
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