Hexagram 34 · line 5
The Power of the Great
大壯Dà Zhuàng
Losing the ram in the open ground. No regret.
Line statement
六五
喪羊于易，无悔。
Losing the ram in the open ground. No regret.
Line 5 is the yielding center of outer Thunder, and the ram is lost without regret. Making the line firm turns Thunder into Lake and produces Hexagram 43 above Heaven.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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