Hexagram 19 · line 5
Approach
臨Lín
Wise approach, fitting for a great ruler. Favorable.
Line statement
六五
知臨，大君之宜，吉。
Wise approach, fitting for a great ruler. Favorable.
Wise approach is placed at the yielding center of the upper trigram. Firming Line 5 changes upper earth to water and forms Hexagram 60.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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