Hexagram 16 · line 5
Enthusiasm
豫Yù
A lasting illness, yet one does not die.
Line statement
六五
貞疾，恆不死。
A lasting illness, yet one does not die.
Persistent illness occupies Line 5, the yielding center directly above the hexagram's firm source. Turning it firm changes upper thunder to lake and produces Hexagram 45.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes