Hexagram 35 · line 6
Progress
晉Jìn
Advancing with the horns, fit only for attacking one’s own city. Danger, yet favorable and without fault. Persistence brings regret.
Line statement
上九
晉其角，維用伐邑。厲吉无咎，貞吝。
Advancing with the horns, fit only for attacking one’s own city. Danger, yet favorable and without fault. Persistence brings regret.
At Line 6, advance reaches the horns. The traditional reading confines the punitive action to one’s own city. Changing the firm top to yielding turns Fire into Thunder and produces Hexagram 16 above Earth.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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