Hexagram 33 · line 6
Retreat
遯Dùn
Unencumbered retreat. Favorable in every respect.
Line statement
上九
肥遯，无不利。
Unencumbered retreat. Favorable in every respect.
Nothing binds retreat at Line 6; the distance is ample. A yielding top turns Heaven into Lake and produces Hexagram 31, Influence above the same Mountain.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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.
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