Hexagram 61 · line 3
Inner Truth
中孚Zhōng Fú
Meeting a counterpart: now beating the drum, now stopping; now weeping, now singing.
Line statement
六三
得敵，或鼓或罷，或泣或歌。
Meeting a counterpart: now beating the drum, now stopping; now weeping, now singing.
A counterpart prompts alternating action and emotion in Line 3: drumming and stopping, weeping and singing. Its change makes Heaven below Wind, Hexagram 9. The theme of small restraint contrasts with those swings.
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.
One line changes