Hexagram 5 · line 1
Waiting
需Xū
Waiting in the outskirts. Lasting steadiness is beneficial. No fault.
Line statement
初九
需于郊，利用恆，无咎。
Waiting in the outskirts. Lasting steadiness is beneficial. No fault.
The outskirts belong to the bottom line, still far from the water trigram above. Changing this firm line to yielding makes Hexagram 48.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches 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