Hexagram 35 · line 4
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晉Jìn
Advancing like a large rat. Constancy meets danger.
Line statement
九四
晉如鼫鼠，貞厲。
Advancing like a large rat. Constancy meets danger.
The large rat enters outer Fire at Line 4. When that line yields, Fire becomes Mountain and the result is Hexagram 23, Mountain above Earth.
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.
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