Hexagram 38 · line 3
Opposition
睽Kuí
The cart is dragged back, and its ox is held. The person has the forehead marked and the nose cut. No beginning, but an end.
Line statement
六三
見輿曳，其牛掣，其人天且劓，无初有終。
The cart is dragged back, and its ox is held. The person has the forehead marked and the nose cut. No beginning, but an end.
Restraint and bodily injury crowd Line 3, yet the text gives the sequence an end. Filling Lake's open upper line makes Heaven below Fire and produces Hexagram 14.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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