Hexagram 52 · line 3
Keeping Still (Mountain)
艮Gèn
Keeping the waist still, the muscles along the spine are torn apart. Danger sears the heart.
Line statement
九三
艮其限，列其夤，厲薰心。
Keeping the waist still, the muscles along the spine are torn apart. Danger sears the heart.
Stillness forced at the waist becomes painful division: the back is torn and danger reaches the heart. Changing Line 3 makes Earth below Mountain, Hexagram 23. Its stripping-away image can be compared with this bodily loss of connection.
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