Hexagram 60 · line 6
Limitation
節Jié
Bitter limits. Constancy brings misfortune. Regret disappears.
Line statement
上六
苦節，貞凶，悔亡。
Bitter limits. Constancy brings misfortune. Regret disappears.
Bitter restraint marks Line 6, where constancy is adverse although regret disappears. Its change makes Wind above Lake, Hexagram 61. Trust offers another theme for comparison with severe limits; the tension within the original verdict remains.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches 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