Hexagram 30 · line 5
The Clinging (Fire)
離Lí
Tears stream out; sorrow draws repeated sighs. Favorable.
Line statement
六五
出涕沱若，戚嗟若，吉。
Tears stream out; sorrow draws repeated sighs. Favorable.
Tears and sighs occupy Line 5, the yielding center of Li's outer trigram. Changing it to firm turns Fire into Heaven and yields Hexagram 13, Heaven above Fire.
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