Hexagram 58 · line 5
The Joyous (Lake)
兌Duì
Trust placed in what strips away. Danger.
Line statement
九五
孚于剝，有厲。
Trust placed in what strips away. Danger.
Line 5 warns of trust placed in what undermines it. Its change makes Thunder above Lake, Hexagram 54. The warning can be compared with the unequal or constrained relation described in that figure.
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