Hexagram 27 · line 4
Nourishment
頤Yí
Nourishment is overturned, yet favorable. A tiger watches intently, its appetite pressing on. No fault.
Line statement
六四
顛頤，吉。虎視眈眈，其欲逐逐，无咎。
Nourishment is overturned, yet favorable. A tiger watches intently, its appetite pressing on. No fault.
The tiger's fixed gaze appears at Line 4, the base of outer Mountain. A firm line there makes Fire above Thunder and yields Hexagram 21, whose mouth image is directed at an obstruction.
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.
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