Hexagram 39 · line 5
Obstruction
蹇Jiǎn
In the great obstruction, companions come.
Line statement
九五
大蹇，朋來。
In the great obstruction, companions come.
Great obstruction remains at Line 5, but companions arrive there. The firm center yields, Water becomes Earth, and Hexagram 15 places receptive ground above Mountain.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · center
Line 5 is the center of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches 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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