Hexagram 9 · line 3
The Taming Power of the Small
小畜Xiǎo Xù
The cart loses its spokes. Husband and wife turn against each other.
Line statement
九三
輿說輻。夫妻反目。
The cart loses its spokes. Husband and wife turn against each other.
At Line 3, the inner heaven trigram ends with a disabled cart and estranged spouses. A yielding line there makes the lower trigram lake and gives Hexagram 61.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes