Hexagram 5 · line 5
Waiting
需Xū
Waiting with wine and food. Constancy is favorable.
Line statement
九五
需于酒食，貞吉。
Waiting with wine and food. Constancy is favorable.
Wine and food are set at the firm center of the upper water trigram. When Line 5 yields, that trigram becomes earth and the figure is Hexagram 11.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 2; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
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