Hexagram 53 · line 5
Development
漸Jiàn
The wild goose advances to the hill. The woman does not conceive for three years; in the end, nothing can prevent their union. Favorable.
Line statement
九五
鴻漸于陵，婦三歲不孕，終莫之勝，吉。
The wild goose advances to the hill. The woman does not conceive for three years; in the end, nothing can prevent their union. Favorable.
The three-year delay in Line 5 concerns a union that eventually overcomes its obstruction. Changing it makes Mountain above Mountain, Hexagram 52. The contrast is between delayed development and stillness.
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