Hexagram 36 · line 5
Darkening of the Light
明夷Míng Yí
The wounding of Jizi's light. Constancy is beneficial.
Line statement
六五
箕子之明夷，利貞。
The wounding of Jizi's light. Constancy is beneficial.
Jizi appears at Line 5, the center of outer Earth, as the named instance of obscured light. When that line turns firm, Water stands above Fire and the figure is Hexagram 63, an ordered crossing.
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.
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