Hexagram 2 · line 5
The Receptive
坤Kūn
A yellow lower garment: greatly favorable.
Line statement
六五
黃裳元吉。
A yellow lower garment: greatly favorable.
The yellow lower garment belongs to the centered fifth place; turning this line firm makes Hexagram 8, with its single unbroken line at the center of the upper trigram.
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