Hexagram 34 · line 3
The Power of the Great
大壯Dà Zhuàng
A petty person uses force; an exemplary person does not. Constancy meets danger. A ram butts a fence and entangles its horns.
Line statement
九三
小人用壯，君子用罔，貞厲。羝羊觸藩，羸其角。
A petty person uses force; an exemplary person does not. Constancy meets danger. A ram butts a fence and entangles its horns.
The ram catches its horns at Line 3, the end of inner Heaven. When that firm line yields, Lake replaces Heaven below Thunder and the figure becomes Hexagram 54, a relationship of unequal positions.
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.
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