Hexagram 8 · line 5
Holding Together
比Bì
Open union. The king hunts from three sides and lets the game ahead escape. The townspeople need no warning. Favorable.
Line statement
九五
顯比。王用三驅，失前禽。邑人不誡，吉。
Open union. The king hunts from three sides and lets the game ahead escape. The townspeople need no warning. Favorable.
The fifth line is the figure's single firm center, and its three-sided hunt leaves one route open; if the line yields, all six lines are broken and Hexagram 2 results.
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.
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