Hexagram 27 · line 5

Nourishment

頤Yí

Departing from the regular course. Staying constant is favorable. Do not cross the great river.

Line statement

六五

拂經,居貞吉,不可涉大川。

Departing from the regular course. Staying constant is favorable. Do not cross the great river.

Line 5 occupies the broken center of Mountain and depends on an irregular source of support. Its change makes that center firm, turns Mountain into Wind, and produces Hexagram 42 above the same inner Thunder.

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

Moving to 42 · Increase