Hexagram 17 · line 6

Following

隨Suí

Held and fastened, then bound yet further. The king uses this in an offering on the Western Mountain.

Line statement

上六

拘係之,乃從維之。王用亨于西山。

Held and fastened, then bound yet further. The king uses this in an offering on the Western Mountain.

Binding and the Western Mountain offering appear at the yielding top line. Firming it changes upper lake to heaven and produces Hexagram 25.

Computed position

How this place works

Trigram position
outer · boundary

Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.

Polarity and place
yin in an even place: aligned

Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.

Correspondence
Line 3: same polarity

Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.

One line changes

Moving to 25 · Innocence