Hexagram 37 · line 5
The Family
家人Jiā Rén
The king comes to his household. Do not worry. Favorable.
Line statement
九五
王假有家，勿恤，吉。
The king comes to his household. Do not worry. Favorable.
The king reaches the household at Line 5, Wind's firm center. Changing that line to yielding makes Mountain above Fire and yields Hexagram 22.
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