Hexagram 17 · line 5
Following
隨Suí
Trust in what is excellent. Favorable.
Line statement
九五
孚于嘉，吉。
Trust in what is excellent. Favorable.
Trust in what is excellent occupies the firm center of the upper trigram, which changes from lake to thunder and forms Hexagram 51 when Line 5 yields.
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