Hexagram 10 · line 6
Treading
履Lǚ
Look back over the treading and examine its signs. When the circuit is complete, greatly favorable.
Line statement
上九
視履考祥，其旋元吉。
Look back over the treading and examine its signs. When the circuit is complete, greatly favorable.
From the top line, the entire course of treading can be reviewed and its signs examined; changed to yielding, it makes the upper trigram lake and produces the doubled-lake Hexagram 58.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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