Hexagram 60 · line 3
Limitation
節Jié
Without restraint comes lamenting. There is no one else to blame.
Line statement
六三
不節若，則嗟若，无咎。
Without restraint comes lamenting. There is no one else to blame.
Line 3 laments a failure of restraint. Here “no fault” is traditionally explained as having no one else to blame, not as an acquittal. Changing it makes Heaven below Water, Hexagram 5, whose waiting offers a contrast with unmeasured conduct.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes