Hexagram 47 · line 3
Oppression
困Kùn
Pressed against stone and leaning on thorns. Entering the house, one does not see the wife. Misfortune.
Line statement
六三
困于石，據于蒺藜，入于其宮，不見其妻，凶。
Pressed against stone and leaning on thorns. Entering the house, one does not see the wife. Misfortune.
Rock, thorns, and an absent spouse leave Line 3 without a welcoming support. Its change replaces lower Water with Wind, forming Hexagram 28. That figure’s overloaded ridgepole offers another image of inadequate support.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes