Hexagram 1 · line 6
The Creative
乾Qián
A dragon at excessive height: regret.
Line statement
上九
亢龍有悔。
A dragon at excessive height: regret.
The dragon has gone beyond a workable height and lost the ability to come down. This is an image of strength carried past its occasion: more effort can deepen the excess. Changing the top line produces Hexagram 43.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary 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 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes