Hexagram 21 · line 1
Biting Through
噬嗑Shì Hé
Feet placed in stocks until the toes disappear. No fault.
Line statement
初九
屨校滅趾，无咎。
Feet placed in stocks until the toes disappear. No fault.
The stocks cover the toes at Line 1, which is firm. When the line yields, lower thunder becomes earth and the figure is Hexagram 35.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes