Hexagram 8 · line 3
Holding Together
比Bì
Joining with the wrong people.
Line statement
六三
比之匪人。
Joining with the wrong people.
Line 3 is yielding at the edge of inner earth, and its stated association is unfitting. Made firm, it changes the lower trigram to mountain and yields Hexagram 39.
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