Hexagram 26 · line 3
The Taming Power of the Great
大畜Dà Xù
Fine horses pursue one another. Constancy through difficulty is beneficial. Practice chariot driving and defense daily; proceeding is beneficial.
Line statement
九三
良馬逐，利艱貞。曰閑輿衛，利有攸往。
Fine horses pursue one another. Constancy through difficulty is beneficial. Practice chariot driving and defense daily; proceeding is beneficial.
Fine horses and daily training appear at Line 3, the outer edge of lower Heaven. The image combines readiness to advance with practiced control. Changing the line turns Heaven into Lake and produces Hexagram 41, Lake below Mountain.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes