Hexagram 2 · line 3
The Receptive
坤Kūn
Brilliance held within; constancy can be maintained. In the king’s service, one does not claim the achievement, yet carries the work through.
Line statement
六三
含章可貞，或從王事，无成有終。
Brilliance held within; constancy can be maintained. In the king’s service, one does not claim the achievement, yet carries the work through.
Line 3 closes the lower trigram while keeping brilliance contained and achievement unclaimed. Made firm, it produces Hexagram 15, with its sole unbroken line at the third place.
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.
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