Hexagram 19 · line 3
Approach
臨Lín
A flattering approach. Nothing is beneficial. Once one is concerned about this, no fault.
Line statement
六三
甘臨，无攸利。既憂之，无咎。
A flattering approach. Nothing is beneficial. Once one is concerned about this, no fault.
The yielding third line tries to approach through pleasing words. Recognizing the problem can interrupt that course before fault deepens. Changing Line 3 to firm turns lower lake into heaven and produces Hexagram 11.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes