Hexagram 31 · line 4
Influence
咸Xián
Constancy is favorable; regret vanishes. In restless coming and going, companions follow your thoughts.
Line statement
九四
貞吉，悔亡。憧憧往來，朋從爾思。
Constancy is favorable; regret vanishes. In restless coming and going, companions follow your thoughts.
At Line 4 the bodily sequence reaches the region of the heart, though the organ is not named. The traditional reading contrasts steady influence with anxious calculation that reaches only one’s companions. Changing Line 4 makes Water above Mountain, Hexagram 39.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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