Hexagram 42 · line 5
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益Yì
A sincere, benevolent heart. Do not ask: greatly favorable. My goodness is met with sincere goodwill.
Line statement
九五
有孚惠心，勿問元吉。有孚惠我德。
A sincere, benevolent heart. Do not ask: greatly favorable. My goodness is met with sincere goodwill.
At Line 5, goodwill moves in both directions: a sincere intention to benefit others meets a sincere response. That reciprocity is the traditional reading of the repeated 有孚. Changing the firm center makes Mountain above Thunder, Hexagram 27.
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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