Hexagram 61 · line 4
Inner Truth
中孚Zhōng Fú
The moon is nearly full. The horse loses its mate. No fault.
Line statement
六四
月幾望，馬匹亡，无咎。
The moon is nearly full. The horse loses its mate. No fault.
The nearly full moon appears beside a horse separated from its mate, yet Line 4 receives no fault. Its change makes Heaven above Lake, Hexagram 10. Conduct offers a second theme beside the source’s image of separation.
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.
One line changes