Hexagram 50 · line 3
The Cauldron
鼎Dǐng
The cauldron's handles are altered, blocking its movement; rich pheasant meat goes uneaten. Rain is coming, and regret diminishes. In the end, favorable.
Line statement
九三
鼎耳革，其行塞，雉膏不食。方雨虧悔，終吉。
The cauldron's handles are altered, blocking its movement; rich pheasant meat goes uneaten. Rain is coming, and regret diminishes. In the end, favorable.
Altered handles prevent the cauldron from being carried, leaving rich food unused; the line later allows regret to lessen. Changing Line 3 makes Water below Fire, Hexagram 64. Before Completion offers a comparison with prepared food that cannot yet be used.
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