Hexagram 47 · line 6
Oppression
困Kùn
Pressed by creeping vines on an unsteady height. It is said that movement brings regret. Regret is present; setting out is favorable.
Line statement
上六
困于葛藟，于臲卼，曰動悔。有悔，征吉。
Pressed by creeping vines on an unsteady height. It is said that movement brings regret. Regret is present; setting out is favorable.
At Line 6, vines and unstable ground represent the last degree of constraint. The line distinguishes fearing regret from recognizing grounds for it, after which advance is favorable. Its change makes Heaven above Water, Hexagram 6, setting this entanglement beside a different image of contention.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes