Hexagram 38 · line 4
Opposition
睽Kuí
Isolated in opposition, one meets a good man. Trust is exchanged. Danger, but no fault.
Line statement
九四
睽孤，遇元夫，交孚，厲，无咎。
Isolated in opposition, one meets a good man. Trust is exchanged. Danger, but no fault.
Line 4 has no opposite-polarity counterpart in Line 1, yet the traditional reading finds shared character between these two firm lines. Their contact is possible amid opposition. Changing Line 4 makes Mountain above Lake, Hexagram 41.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes