Hexagram 28 · line 1
Preponderance of the Great
大過Dà Guò
White thatching grass is laid underneath as a mat. No fault.
Line statement
初六
藉用白茅，无咎。
White thatching grass is laid underneath as a mat. No fault.
Line 1 places white thatching grass beneath the load, adding care at the point of support. Firming the bottom line turns lower Wind into Heaven and produces Hexagram 43, Lake above Heaven.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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