Hexagram 3 · line 3
Difficulty at the Beginning
屯Zhūn
Following a deer without a forester, one only enters the forest. The exemplary person sees the first signs and judges it better to let go; going on brings difficulty.
Line statement
六三
即鹿无虞，惟入于林中。君子幾，不如舍，往吝。
Following a deer without a forester, one only enters the forest. The exemplary person sees the first signs and judges it better to let go; going on brings difficulty.
The deer supplies a goal, but there is no forester to make pursuit intelligible. The useful recognition is that desire does not supply missing guidance; abandoning the chase remains an available action. Changing Line 3 produces Hexagram 63.
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