Hexagram 55 · line 3
Abundance
豐Fēng
The covering grows so dense that a small star is seen at noon. The right arm is broken. No fault.
Line statement
九三
豐其沛，日中見沬。折其右肱，无咎。
The covering grows so dense that a small star is seen at noon. The right arm is broken. No fault.
Even a small star is visible at noon, and the right arm is broken: Line 3 combines obscurity with impaired action. Changing it makes Thunder below Thunder, Hexagram 51. Repeated shock offers a contrasting image to the blocked light.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes