Hexagram 61 · line 6
Inner Truth
中孚Zhōng Fú
A cock's call rises to heaven. Constancy brings misfortune.
Line statement
上九
翰音登于天，貞凶。
A cock's call rises to heaven. Constancy brings misfortune.
A cock’s call reaches heaven in Line 6, an image traditionally read as a claim beyond its substance. Changing it makes Water above Lake, Hexagram 60. Measured limits provide a contrast to the excessive height of the call.
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