Hexagram 22 · line 5

Grace

賁Bì

Adornment in the hill garden. The bundle of silk is meager. Difficulty, then a favorable end.

Line statement

六五

賁于丘園,束帛戔戔。吝,終吉。

Adornment in the hill garden. The bundle of silk is meager. Difficulty, then a favorable end.

The hill garden and meager roll of silk belong to the centered fifth line. If it becomes firm, upper mountain changes to wind and the result is Hexagram 37.

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

Moving to 37 · The Family