Hexagram 13 · line 5
Fellowship
同人Tóng Rén
In fellowship, first loud cries and weeping, then laughter. Great armies overcome the separation, and the parties meet.
Line statement
九五
同人先號咷，而後笑，大師克相遇。
In fellowship, first loud cries and weeping, then laughter. Great armies overcome the separation, and the parties meet.
The centered fifth line carries the sequence from cries through opposing armies to a meeting, and making it yielding turns upper heaven into fire to produce the doubled-fire Hexagram 30.
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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