Hexagram 32 · line 5
Duration
恆Héng
Sustaining one's character through constancy: favorable for a woman, misfortune for a husband.
Line statement
六五
恆其德，貞，婦人吉，夫子凶。
Sustaining one's character through constancy: favorable for a woman, misfortune for a husband.
Line 5 assigns opposite judgments to wife and husband within a received social order; it is historical text, not a modern prescription. Making the line firm turns Thunder into Lake and yields Hexagram 28 above the unchanged inner Wind.
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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