Hexagram 46 · line 3
Pushing Upward
升Shēng
Ascending into an empty city.
Line statement
九三
升虛邑。
Ascending into an empty city.
The empty city in Line 3 presents an ascent without visible resistance. Changing the line makes Water below Earth, Hexagram 7, whose sole firm line is at the lower center. An open route and the organization of a collective are separate images to compare.
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.
One line changes