Hexagram 31 · line 6
Influence
咸Xián
Influence reaches the jaw, cheeks, and tongue.
Line statement
上六
咸其輔、頰、舌。
Influence reaches the jaw, cheeks, and tongue.
By Line 6, influence has risen to the jaw, cheeks, and tongue. Making the top line firm turns Lake into Heaven and produces Hexagram 33, Retreat above the same inner Mountain.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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