Six in the third place is the hardest reading in Opposition and it is not a warning. The querent is shown a cart dragged back, oxen forced the other way, and a man bearing the marks of two judicial punishments of the period, the shaving of the head and the cutting off of the nose, and is then told there is no good beginning but a good end. The verdict is favourable, and the route to it runs through everything named before it.
The period detail should be given as it stands rather than converted into a modern equivalent, because its function in the line is specific: these were sentences that made a person permanently identifiable as having been punished. What the line adds is a refusal to treat the mark as the outcome. The obstruction and the humiliation are both real, both early, and neither is where the line finishes, and a reading landing here is being told that the beginning has already gone as badly as it is going to go.
When the line changes, the lower trigram Dui becomes Qian and the figure becomes Great Possession, King Wen 14, fire above heaven, one yielding line holding five strong ones and the classic's picture of abundance kept in good order. That is as complete a reversal as the classic offers anywhere. It is the good end this line promises, reached from the worst position in the hexagram and by nothing the third line manages to do for itself.