Hexagram 13 · line 5

Fellowship

同人Tóng Rén

In fellowship, first loud cries and weeping, then laughter. Great armies overcome the separation, and the parties meet.

Line statement

九五

同人先號咷,而後笑,大師克相遇。

In fellowship, first loud cries and weeping, then laughter. Great armies overcome the separation, and the parties meet.

The centered fifth line carries the sequence from cries through opposing armies to a meeting, and making it yielding turns upper heaven into fire to produce the doubled-fire Hexagram 30.

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: responsive

Its counterpart is Line 2; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.

One line changes

Moving to 30 · The Clinging (Fire)