Hexagram 39 · line 3
Obstruction
蹇Jiǎn
Going forward meets obstruction; coming back returns one to familiar companions.
Line statement
九三
往蹇，來反。
Going forward meets obstruction; coming back returns one to familiar companions.
Line 3 reverses at the outer edge of Mountain. When the firm line yields, Earth replaces Mountain below Water and the figure becomes Hexagram 8, a return toward cohesion.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes