Hexagram 45 · line 5
Gathering Together
萃Cuì
Gathering around a recognized place brings no fault. Where trust is absent, great and lasting constancy lets regret disappear.
Line statement
九五
萃有位，无咎。匪孚。元永貞，悔亡。
Gathering around a recognized place brings no fault. Where trust is absent, great and lasting constancy lets regret disappear.
Line 5 holds a position around which people gather, yet trust is not assured. Its change turns upper Lake into Thunder, Hexagram 16; Line 4 is then the sole firm line. The comparison concerns where a gathering centers.
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.
One line changes