Hexagram 30 · line 1
The Clinging (Fire)
離Lí
The footsteps cross in confusion. Regard them with care, and there is no fault.
Line statement
初九
履錯然，敬之无咎。
The footsteps cross in confusion. Regard them with care, and there is no fault.
Crossed steps mark Line 1, before lower Fire has found a path. The line's change makes Mountain below Fire and produces Hexagram 56.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes