Hexagram 35 · line 1
Progress
晉Jìn
Advancing, then checked. Constancy is favorable. Though not trusted, remaining at ease leaves no fault.
Line statement
初六
晉如，摧如，貞吉。罔孚，裕无咎。
Advancing, then checked. Constancy is favorable. Though not trusted, remaining at ease leaves no fault.
Advance is checked at Line 1 before recognition has taken hold. A firm bottom turns lower Earth into Thunder and produces Hexagram 21, Thunder below Fire.
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.
One line changes