Hexagram 60 · line 1

Limitation

節Jié

Not going out beyond the inner courtyard. No fault.

Line statement

初九

不出戶庭,无咎。

Not going out beyond the inner courtyard. No fault.

Line 1 stays within the household courtyard and receives no fault. Once it moves, the figure is Hexagram 29: lake becomes water below water, placing this close boundary beside repeated danger.

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

Moving to 29 · The Abysmal (Water)