Hexagram 6 · line 4
Conflict
訟Sòng
Unable to prevail in dispute, one returns to the mandate, changes course, and rests in constancy. Favorable.
Line statement
九四
不克訟。復即命，渝，安貞吉。
Unable to prevail in dispute, one returns to the mandate, changes course, and rests in constancy. Favorable.
Line 4 is the first firm place of the outer heaven trigram; here the claimant returns to the mandate and changes course. If the line yields, heaven becomes wind and Hexagram 59 results.
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