Hexagram 34 · line 6
The Power of the Great
大壯Dà Zhuàng
A ram butts a fence and can neither withdraw nor get through. Nothing is beneficial. Taking the difficulty seriously is favorable.
Line statement
上六
羝羊觸藩，不能退，不能遂，无攸利，艱則吉。
A ram butts a fence and can neither withdraw nor get through. Nothing is beneficial. Taking the difficulty seriously is favorable.
The top line is caught at the fence, unable to advance or withdraw. Changing it to firm turns Thunder into Fire and yields Hexagram 14, Fire above Heaven.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes