Hexagram 12 · line 5
Stagnation
否Pǐ
Obstruction comes to rest. Favorable for the great person. 'It may perish, it may perish,' tied fast to a bushy mulberry.
Line statement
九五
休否，大人吉。其亡其亡，繫于苞桑。
Obstruction comes to rest. Favorable for the great person. 'It may perish, it may perish,' tied fast to a bushy mulberry.
Obstruction comes to rest at Line 5, the firm center, while the repeated thought of loss remains. Making this line yielding turns upper heaven into fire and gives Hexagram 35.
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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