Hexagram 15 · line 6
Modesty
謙Qiān
Modesty made known. Mobilizing the army to campaign against one’s own towns and domains is beneficial.
Line statement
上六
鳴謙。利用行師征邑國。
Modesty made known. Mobilizing the army to campaign against one’s own towns and domains is beneficial.
At the top line, recognized modesty is joined to a military campaign within one’s own domains. The traditional reading restricts its reach because this line lacks the ruler’s office. Changing Line 6 to firm makes upper earth into mountain and produces Hexagram 52.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches 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.
One line changes