Hexagram 20 · line 5
Contemplation
觀Guān
Observing one's own life. The exemplary person is without fault.
Line statement
九五
觀我生，君子无咎。
Observing one's own life. The exemplary person is without fault.
Observing one's own life recurs at the firm and ruling fifth place. If this line yields, upper wind becomes mountain and the figure changes to Hexagram 23.
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