Hexagram 57 · line 6
The Gentle (Wind)
巽Xùn
Submission beneath the bed; resources and the axe are lost. Constancy brings misfortune.
Line statement
上九
巽在床下，喪其資斧，貞凶。
Submission beneath the bed; resources and the axe are lost. Constancy brings misfortune.
Submission has become excessive in Line 6, where resources and the axe are lost and constancy is adverse. Its change makes Water above Wind, Hexagram 48. The well’s shared source offers a contrast with depleted means.
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