Hexagram 62 · line 3
Preponderance of the Small
小過Xiǎo Guò
Without extra precautions, someone following may attack and wound. Misfortune.
Line statement
九三
弗過防之，從或戕之，凶。
Without extra precautions, someone following may attack and wound. Misfortune.
Line 3 warns of injury when precautions are insufficient. Its change makes Earth below Thunder, Hexagram 16. Shared movement can be considered alongside the need for protection.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches 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