Hexagram 12 · line 3
Stagnation
否Pǐ
Harboring shame.
Line statement
六三
包羞。
Harboring shame.
Shame is held at Line 3, the upper boundary of inner earth; turn that line firm and earth becomes mountain, producing Hexagram 33.
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.
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