Hexagram 11 · line 5
Peace
泰Tài
Di Yi gives his younger sister in marriage. Through this blessing, greatly favorable.
Line statement
六五
帝乙歸妹，以祉元吉。
Di Yi gives his younger sister in marriage. Through this blessing, greatly favorable.
The marriage arranged by Di Yi stands at the centered fifth place of the upper trigram. A firm line there changes earth to water and forms Hexagram 5.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 2: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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