Hexagram 38 · line 5
Opposition
睽Kuí
Regret vanishes. One's own kin bites through the skin. Going onward, what fault could there be?
Line statement
六五
悔亡。厥宗噬膚，往，何咎？
Regret vanishes. One's own kin bites through the skin. Going onward, what fault could there be?
At Line 5, biting through skin describes how readily a bond can be renewed, like biting something soft. The traditional reading links the kin to the corresponding second line. Changing Line 5 makes Heaven above Lake, Hexagram 10.
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.
One line changes