Hexagram 44 · line 3
Coming to Meet
姤Gòu
The buttocks have no skin, and walking is halting. Danger, but no great fault.
Line statement
九三
臀无膚，其行次且，厲，无大咎。
The buttocks have no skin, and walking is halting. Danger, but no great fault.
Line 3 reaches the edge of inner Wind without a seat or easy gait. Its change makes Water below Heaven and produces Hexagram 6, Conflict between opposing movements.
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.
One line changes