Hexagram 21 · line 5
Biting Through
噬嗑Shì Hé
Biting dried meat and finding yellow gold. Constancy with awareness of danger. No fault.
Line statement
六五
噬乾肉，得黃金。貞厲，无咎。
Biting dried meat and finding yellow gold. Constancy with awareness of danger. No fault.
The yielding ruler at Line 5 faces a difficult judgment despite finding something valuable. Steadiness and awareness of danger qualify the no-fault judgment. Changing this line to firm turns upper fire to heaven and produces Hexagram 25.
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