Hexagram 27 · line 3
Nourishment
頤Yí
Departing from nourishment: constancy brings misfortune. Do not act for ten years; nothing is beneficial.
Line statement
六三
拂頤，貞凶。十年勿用，无攸利。
Departing from nourishment: constancy brings misfortune. Do not act for ten years; nothing is beneficial.
At Line 3, the lower trigram closes on a course associated with misfortune in the text. Changing that line gives Fire below Mountain, Hexagram 22.
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.
One line changes