Hexagram 45 · line 3
Gathering Together
萃Cuì
Gathering with sighs. Nothing is beneficial. Going brings no fault, though there is a little cause for regret.
Line statement
六三
萃如，嗟如，无攸利。往无咎，小吝。
Gathering with sighs. Nothing is beneficial. Going brings no fault, though there is a little cause for regret.
Sighing accompanies the wish to gather at Line 3; going is without fault, though not free of difficulty. Its change makes Mountain below Lake, Hexagram 31. The contrast is between the present difficulty of joining and a figure concerned with influence and response.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes