Hexagram 57 · line 5
The Gentle (Wind)
巽Xùn
Constancy is favorable; regret disappears, and nothing is without benefit. A poor beginning, but a good ending. Three days before the day Geng and three days after it. Favorable.
Line statement
九五
貞吉，悔亡，无不利。无初有終，先庚三日，後庚三日，吉。
Constancy is favorable; regret disappears, and nothing is without benefit. A poor beginning, but a good ending. Three days before the day Geng and three days after it. Favorable.
Line 5 contrasts a poor beginning with a good ending and names three days on each side of Geng. Its change makes Mountain above Wind, Hexagram 18. The two texts share attention to the work surrounding a turning point; Hexagram 18 uses the day Jia.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes