Hexagram 23 · line 1
Splitting Apart
剝Bō
Stripping the bed at its feet. Constancy is being destroyed. Misfortune.
Line statement
初六
剝床以足，蔑貞凶。
Stripping the bed at its feet. Constancy is being destroyed. Misfortune.
Stripping begins at the yielding bottom line, at the bed's feet; firming it changes lower earth to thunder and produces Hexagram 27.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes