Hexagram 1 · line 3
The Creative
乾Qián
The exemplary person stays vigorously engaged through the day and watchful at night, as if danger were near. No fault.
Line statement
九三
君子終日乾乾，夕惕若厲，无咎。
The exemplary person stays vigorously engaged through the day and watchful at night, as if danger were near. No fault.
The movement from daytime effort to evening vigilance joins energy with attention to its risks. No fault accompanies that care; the passage still names danger. Line 3 ends the inner trigram, and its change produces Hexagram 10.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes