Hexagram 45 · line 4
Gathering Together
萃Cuì
Greatly favorable. No fault.
Line statement
九四
大吉，无咎。
Greatly favorable. No fault.
Line 4 says greatly favorable and no fault; it supplies no additional scene. Changing this firm line makes Water above Earth, Hexagram 8, leaving Line 5 as the only firm line. The comparison concerns gathering around a single center.
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