Hexagram 17 · line 6
Following
隨Suí
Held and fastened, then bound yet further. The king uses this in an offering on the Western Mountain.
Line statement
上六
拘係之，乃從維之。王用亨于西山。
Held and fastened, then bound yet further. The king uses this in an offering on the Western Mountain.
Binding and the Western Mountain offering appear at the yielding top line. Firming it changes upper lake to heaven and produces Hexagram 25.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes