Hexagram 4 · line 3
Youthful Folly
蒙Méng
Do not marry a woman who loses her self-restraint at the sight of a wealthy man. Nothing is beneficial.
Line statement
六三
勿用取女。見金夫，不有躬，无攸利。
Do not marry a woman who loses her self-restraint at the sight of a wealthy man. Nothing is beneficial.
Loss of self-possession is assigned to Line 3, the outer edge of the lower water trigram. Making this line firm changes that trigram to wind and produces Hexagram 18.
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.
One line changes