Hexagram 37 · line 3
The Family
家人Jiā Rén
Harsh severity in the household brings regret and danger, yet remains favorable. If wife and children laugh without restraint, it ends in regret.
Line statement
九三
家人嗃嗃，悔厲，吉。婦子嘻嘻，終吝。
Harsh severity in the household brings regret and danger, yet remains favorable. If wife and children laugh without restraint, it ends in regret.
Line 3 closes inner Fire between harsh order and unrestrained laughter. Neither is a modern household rule. Changing the line makes Thunder below Wind and yields Hexagram 42.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches 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