Hexagram 43 · line 3
Breakthrough
夬Guài
Vigor in the cheekbones brings misfortune. The exemplary person remains resolute, walks alone, and meets rain. Soaked and resented, yet without fault.
Line statement
九三
壯于頄，有凶。君子夬夬，獨行遇雨，若濡有慍，无咎。
Vigor in the cheekbones brings misfortune. The exemplary person remains resolute, walks alone, and meets rain. Soaked and resented, yet without fault.
Resolve shows in the cheekbones at Line 3, then walks alone through rain and resentment. Changing the firm line to yielding makes lower Heaven a Lake and yields Hexagram 58, doubled Lake.
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