Hexagram 8 · line 6
Holding Together
比Bì
Joining without a leader. Misfortune.
Line statement
上六
比之无首，凶。
Joining without a leader. Misfortune.
The top line lacks a head for its union. Zhu Xi links this image with a failure to reach completion; Legge instead emphasizes a missing beginning. Changing Line 6 to firm turns upper water to wind and produces Hexagram 20.
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