Hexagram 9 · line 4
The Taming Power of the Small
小畜Xiǎo Xù
There is trust. Bloodshed is averted and fear recedes. No fault.
Line statement
六四
有孚，血去惕出，无咎。
There is trust. Bloodshed is averted and fear recedes. No fault.
Line 4 is the figure's only yielding line, entering the outer trigram as the point of restraint. If it becomes firm, all six lines are unbroken and the figure is Hexagram 1.
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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