Hexagram 5 · line 4
Waiting
需Xū
Waiting in blood. Coming out from the pit.
Line statement
六四
需于血，出自穴。
Waiting in blood. Coming out from the pit.
Blood and emergence from the pit occur at Line 4, the first place within the upper water trigram, which becomes lake and gives Hexagram 43 when the line is firmed.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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