Hexagram 9 · line 6
The Taming Power of the Small
小畜Xiǎo Xù
Rain has fallen and movement comes to rest. Honored virtue has accumulated to fullness. The wife faces danger even with constancy. The moon is nearly full. An exemplary person’s advance brings misfortune.
Line statement
上九
既雨既處，尚德載。婦貞厲，月幾望，君子征凶。
Rain has fallen and movement comes to rest. Honored virtue has accumulated to fullness. The wife faces danger even with constancy. The moon is nearly full. An exemplary person’s advance brings misfortune.
Rain marks the restraint reaching completion, and the nearly full moon gives the image of a limit. The line cautions against pressing onward after that point. Changing Line 6 to yielding turns upper wind to water and produces Hexagram 5.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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