Hexagram 53 · line 6
Development
漸Jiàn
The wild goose advances to high ground. Its feathers can be used in ritual array. Favorable.
Line statement
上九
鴻漸于陸，其羽可用為儀，吉。
The wild goose advances to high ground. Its feathers can be used in ritual array. Favorable.
The final goose image gives its feathers a ceremonial use. Changing Line 6 makes Water above Mountain, Hexagram 39. The mountain stays below while Water replaces Wind above, setting the elevated ritual image beside the theme of obstruction.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes