Hexagram 18 · line 3
Work on What Has Been Spoiled
蠱Gǔ
Repairing what the father has spoiled. There is slight regret, but no great fault.
Line statement
九三
幹父之蠱，小有悔，无大咎。
Repairing what the father has spoiled. There is slight regret, but no great fault.
Line 3 applies a forceful correction to inherited damage; its firmness can go too far, bringing slight regret without great fault. Changing this line to yielding turns lower wind to water and produces Hexagram 4.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes