Hexagram 26 · line 4
The Taming Power of the Great
大畜Dà Xù
A horn-board fitted to a young bull. Greatly favorable.
Line statement
六四
童牛之牿，元吉。
A horn-board fitted to a young bull. Greatly favorable.
Line 4 checks the young bull at the start of outer Mountain. Once that line becomes firm, the Mountain changes to Fire and the result is Hexagram 14, Fire above Heaven.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes