Hexagram 6 · line 3
Conflict
訟Sòng
Living on inherited virtue; constancy amid danger. Favorable in the end. If serving the king, one claims no achievement.
Line statement
六三
食舊德，貞厲，終吉。或從王事，无成。
Living on inherited virtue; constancy amid danger. Favorable in the end. If serving the king, one claims no achievement.
Inherited standing and work without claimed completion occupy the yielding third place; a firm line there changes lower water to wind, forming Hexagram 44.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match 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.
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