Hexagram 50 · line 6
The Cauldron
鼎Dǐng
The vessel has a jade carrying bar. Greatly favorable. Nothing is without benefit.
Line statement
上九
鼎玉鉉，大吉，无不利。
The vessel has a jade carrying bar. Greatly favorable. Nothing is without benefit.
The jade carrying bar completes the cauldron image with an unqualified favorable verdict. Changing Line 6 makes Thunder above Wind, Hexagram 32. The completed vessel can be considered alongside the theme of duration.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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