Hexagram 25 · line 4

Innocence

无妄Wú Wàng

Constancy is possible. No fault.

Line statement

九四

可貞,无咎。

Constancy is possible. No fault.

Line 4 begins outer Heaven as a firm line. Its change opens the bottom of that trigram into Wind, producing Hexagram 42, Increase above the same inner Thunder.

Computed position

How this place works

Trigram position
outer · base

Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.

Polarity and place
yang in an even place: not aligned

Its yang polarity does not match 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

Moving to 42 · Increase