Hexagram 52 · line 1
Keeping Still (Mountain)
艮Gèn
Keep the toes still. No fault. Lasting constancy is beneficial.
Line statement
初六
艮其趾，无咎，利永貞。
Keep the toes still. No fault. Lasting constancy is beneficial.
Line 1 stops movement at the toes, before a step begins, and favors lasting constancy. Its change makes Fire below Mountain, Hexagram 22. The comparison places an unstarted movement beside a figure concerned with visible form.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes