Hexagram 30 · line 6
The Clinging (Fire)
離Lí
The king sends out an expedition. There is merit in striking the ringleaders and sparing captives who were not their accomplices. No fault.
Line statement
上九
王用出征，有嘉折首，獲匪其醜，无咎。
The king sends out an expedition. There is merit in striking the ringleaders and sparing captives who were not their accomplices. No fault.
The campaign at Line 6 distinguishes the ringleaders from those who did not join them. In this traditional reading, clarity includes restraint in punishment. Changing the firm top to yielding replaces upper Fire with Thunder and produces Hexagram 55.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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