Hexagram 53 · line 3
Development
漸Jiàn
The wild goose advances to high ground. The husband goes on campaign and does not return; the wife is pregnant, but her child is not reared. Misfortune. Repelling raiders is beneficial.
Line statement
九三
鴻漸于陸，夫征不復，婦孕不育，凶，利御寇。
The wild goose advances to high ground. The husband goes on campaign and does not return; the wife is pregnant, but her child is not reared. Misfortune. Repelling raiders is beneficial.
Campaigning, a pregnancy without a child being reared, and defense against raiders make Line 3 a troubled stage of advance. Its change makes Earth below Wind, Hexagram 20. Observation offers a different perspective on these scenes.
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