Hexagram 5 · line 6
Waiting
需Xū
One enters the pit. Three uninvited guests arrive. Receive them with respect: favorable in the end.
Line statement
上六
入于穴，有不速之客三人來，敬之終吉。
One enters the pit. Three uninvited guests arrive. Receive them with respect: favorable in the end.
The pit and three unexpected guests appear at the yielding top line. Made firm, it changes upper water to wind and completes Hexagram 9.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes