Hexagram 44 · line 3

Coming to Meet

姤Gòu

The buttocks have no skin, and walking is halting. Danger, but no great fault.

Line statement

九三

臀无膚,其行次且,厲,无大咎。

The buttocks have no skin, and walking is halting. Danger, but no great fault.

Line 3 reaches the edge of inner Wind without a seat or easy gait. Its change makes Water below Heaven and produces Hexagram 6, Conflict between opposing movements.

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: same polarity

Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.

One line changes

Moving to 6 · Conflict