Hexagram 26 · line 5
The Taming Power of the Great
大畜Dà Xù
The tusks of a castrated boar. Favorable.
Line statement
六五
豶豕之牙，吉。
The tusks of a castrated boar. Favorable.
The boar image occupies Line 5, Mountain's yielding center. Changing it to firm makes the upper trigram Wind and produces Hexagram 9, a smaller form of accumulation above Heaven.
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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