Hexagram 24 · line 6
Return
復Fù
Losing the way back brings misfortune, with disaster and error. An army so used ends in great defeat; for the ruler, misfortune. Even in ten years, the campaign cannot succeed.
Line statement
上六
迷復，凶，有災眚。用行師，終有大敗。以其國君，凶。至于十年不克征。
Losing the way back brings misfortune, with disaster and error. An army so used ends in great defeat; for the ruler, misfortune. Even in ten years, the campaign cannot succeed.
The top line has missed Return's turning point. Changing Line 6 closes the upper boundary and produces Hexagram 27, Mountain above Thunder, with an open center framed by firm lines.
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