Hexagram 5 · line 3
Waiting
需Xū
Waiting in the mud draws raiders near.
Line statement
九三
需于泥，致寇至。
Waiting in the mud draws raiders near.
Line 3 reaches the mud at the boundary between inner heaven and outer water. If it yields, the lower trigram becomes lake and the result is Hexagram 60.
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.
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