Hexagram 15 · line 3
Modesty
謙Qiān
Laboring yet modest, the exemplary person completes the work. Favorable.
Line statement
九三
勞謙，君子有終吉。
Laboring yet modest, the exemplary person completes the work. Favorable.
The laboring third line is the figure's only firm place and the summit of the hidden mountain. If it yields, all six lines are broken and the result is Hexagram 2.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes