Hexagram 7 · line 6
The Army
師Shī
The great ruler issues a mandate, founds states, and grants hereditary houses. Do not employ petty people.
Line statement
上六
大君有命，開國承家，小人勿用。
The great ruler issues a mandate, founds states, and grants hereditary houses. Do not employ petty people.
The ruler's postwar mandate belongs to the top line. Changing that yielding line to firm turns upper earth into mountain and gives Hexagram 4.
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