Hexagram 10 · line 3
Treading
履Lǚ
One-eyed, yet able to see; lame, yet able to tread. Treading on the tiger's tail, the person is bitten. Misfortune. A warrior acts as a great ruler.
Line statement
六三
眇能視，跛能履。履虎尾，咥人，凶。武人為于大君。
One-eyed, yet able to see; lame, yet able to tread. Treading on the tiger's tail, the person is bitten. Misfortune. A warrior acts as a great ruler.
Line 3 is yielding at the exposed top of the lower trigram yet assumes a role of greater force. Firming it produces Hexagram 1. The contrast concerns position and force, not the worth of disabled bodies.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes