Hexagram 1 · line 5
The Creative
乾Qián
A dragon flies in heaven. Meeting a great person is beneficial.
Line statement
九五
飛龍在天，利見大人。
A dragon flies in heaven. Meeting a great person is beneficial.
The flying dragon stands at the centered fifth place. Its change makes Hexagram 14, where a yielding ruler is surrounded by five firm lines.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 2: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes