Hexagram 26 · line 1
The Taming Power of the Great
大畜Dà Xù
Danger is present. Stopping is beneficial.
Line statement
初九
有厲，利已。
Danger is present. Stopping is beneficial.
The bottom line meets restraint before stored force can leave the threshold. Its change opens lower Heaven into Wind, producing Hexagram 18, Mountain above Wind.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes