Hexagram 18 · line 5
Work on What Has Been Spoiled
蠱Gǔ
Repairing what the father has spoiled and receiving praise.
Line statement
六五
幹父之蠱，用譽。
Repairing what the father has spoiled and receiving praise.
At the yielding fifth place, repair earns praise through able support rather than solitary force. Changing Line 5 to firm turns upper mountain to wind and produces Hexagram 57.
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.
One line changes