Hexagram 3 · line 6
Difficulty at the Beginning
屯Zhūn
The horse team turns back. Tears of blood flow in an unbroken stream.
Line statement
上六
乘馬班如，泣血漣如。
The horse team turns back. Tears of blood flow in an unbroken stream.
The stalled horse team and streaming tears stand at the upper limit of the hexagram; a firm top line changes the figure to Hexagram 42.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes