Hexagram 23 · line 3
Splitting Apart
剝Bō
Stripping it away. No fault.
Line statement
六三
剝之，无咎。
Stripping it away. No fault.
Line 3 is yielding like the lines around it, but its text alone in this sequence declares no fault; it corresponds to the firm top line. Firming it turns lower earth into mountain and produces Hexagram 52.
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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