Hexagram 42 · line 6
Increase
益Yì
No one brings increase; someone strikes instead. The heart is not constant. Misfortune.
Line statement
上九
莫益之，或擊之，立心勿恆，凶。
No one brings increase; someone strikes instead. The heart is not constant. Misfortune.
Line 6 seeks increase but receives none and faces a blow instead. The text associates this with an inconstant heart. Changing Line 6 makes Water above Thunder, Hexagram 3.
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.
One line changes