Hexagram 33 · line 3
Retreat
遯Dùn
Tethered withdrawal brings illness and danger. Keeping male servants and concubines is favorable.
Line statement
九三
係遯，有疾厲，畜臣妾吉。
Tethered withdrawal brings illness and danger. Keeping male servants and concubines is favorable.
At Line 3, retreat is tethered; the line separately calls keeping male servants and concubines favorable within its received household order. The firm line yields, Mountain becomes Earth, and Hexagram 12 separates Earth from Heaven.
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.
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