Hexagram 4 · line 5
Youthful Folly
蒙Méng
Childlike inexperience. Favorable.
Line statement
六五
童蒙吉。
Childlike inexperience. Favorable.
Childlike openness stands at the yielding center of the upper trigram; when Line 5 becomes firm, mountain changes to wind and the figure is Hexagram 59.
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