Hexagram 23 · line 5
Splitting Apart
剝Bō
A string of fish, receiving favor like the palace women. Favorable in every respect.
Line statement
六五
貫魚，以宮人寵，无不利。
A string of fish, receiving favor like the palace women. Favorable in every respect.
Line 5 leads the yielding lines in an ordered group, like fish on a string. The palace image compares their reception of favor to that of court women. Firming Line 5 changes upper Mountain to Wind and produces Hexagram 20.
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