Hexagram 15 · line 5
Modesty
謙Qiān
Not rich, yet able to draw on the neighbors. Launching an attack is beneficial. Nothing is without benefit.
Line statement
六五
不富以其鄰，利用侵伐，无不利。
Not rich, yet able to draw on the neighbors. Launching an attack is beneficial. Nothing is without benefit.
The centered fifth line draws support without wealth. Its modesty is joined to an attack on those who resist. Changing Line 5 to firm turns upper earth to water and produces Hexagram 39.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match 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