Hexagram 49 · line 6
Revolution
革Gé
The exemplary person changes like a leopard; the small person changes the face. Setting out brings misfortune. Remaining constant in place is favorable.
Line statement
上六
君子豹變，小人革面，征凶，居貞吉。
The exemplary person changes like a leopard; the small person changes the face. Setting out brings misfortune. Remaining constant in place is favorable.
Line 6 distinguishes the leopard’s patterned change from an outward change of face, then warns against further advance. Changing it makes Heaven above Fire, Hexagram 13. Fellowship offers another context for considering changed relations.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes