Hexagram 6 · line 6
Conflict
訟Sòng
A leather belt may be bestowed, then stripped away three times before the morning is over.
Line statement
上九
或錫之鞶帶，終朝三褫之。
A leather belt may be bestowed, then stripped away three times before the morning is over.
An honor won through conflict is stripped away within the same morning; victory has not made the reward secure. Changing Line 6 to yielding turns upper heaven to lake and produces Hexagram 47.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes