Hexagram 63 · line 3
After Completion
既濟Jì Jì
Gaozong attacks the Guifang and conquers them after three years. Do not employ petty people.
Line statement
九三
高宗伐鬼方，三年克之，小人勿用。
Gaozong attacks the Guifang and conquers them after three years. Do not employ petty people.
At Line 3, Gaozong’s campaign lasts three years before victory, and the passage warns against employing petty people. Its change makes Thunder below Water, Hexagram 3. The difficulties of beginning form a contrast with the long effort of completing the campaign.
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