Hexagram 38 · line 6
Opposition
睽Kuí
Isolated in opposition, one sees a muddy pig and a cart full of ghosts. First the bow is drawn, then lowered. No raider, but a marriage seeker. Going forward and meeting rain: favorable.
Line statement
上九
睽孤。見豕負塗，載鬼一車，先張之弧，後說之弧。匪寇婚媾，往，遇雨則吉。
Isolated in opposition, one sees a muddy pig and a cart full of ghosts. First the bow is drawn, then lowered. No raider, but a marriage seeker. Going forward and meeting rain: favorable.
At Line 6, estrangement first sees a pig and ghosts, then lowers the bow and recognizes a marriage approach. A yielding top turns Fire into Thunder and produces Hexagram 54, a received bond of unequal positions.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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