Hexagram 41 · line 3
Decrease
損Sǔn
When three people travel together, their number is reduced by one. When one travels alone, a companion is found.
Line statement
六三
三人行，則損一人；一人行，則得其友。
When three people travel together, their number is reduced by one. When one travels alone, a companion is found.
The arithmetic of three people and one companion closes inner Lake at Line 3. Filling that open line makes Heaven below Mountain and yields Hexagram 26.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match 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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