Hexagram 10 · line 5
Treading
履Lǚ
Decisive treading. Danger even with constancy.
Line statement
九五
夬履，貞厲。
Decisive treading. Danger even with constancy.
The firm ruler at Line 5 acts decisively, but correctness does not remove the danger of relying on position and power. Changing this line to yielding turns upper heaven into fire and produces Hexagram 38.
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