Hexagram 31 · line 5
Influence
咸Xián
Influence reaches the muscles of the upper back. No regret.
Line statement
九五
咸其脢，无悔。
Influence reaches the muscles of the upper back. No regret.
Line 5 places influence in the upper back, away from the heart. Zhu Xi reads this as freedom from private attachment, but also as limited responsiveness. Changing the firm line makes Thunder above Mountain, Hexagram 62.
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