Hexagram 39 · line 4
Obstruction
蹇Jiǎn
Going meets obstruction; coming back forms a connection.
Line statement
六四
往蹇，來連。
Going meets obstruction; coming back forms a connection.
Return forms a connection at Line 4, the first line of outer Water. Making it firm turns Water into Lake and gives Hexagram 31 above the unchanged Mountain.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches 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