Hexagram 28 · line 3
Preponderance of the Great
大過Dà Guò
The ridgepole bends. Misfortune.
Line statement
九三
棟橈，凶。
The ridgepole bends. Misfortune.
At Line 3, the ridgepole bends where inner Wind reaches its upper edge. Changing the firm line to yielding gives Water below Lake, Hexagram 47.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes