Hexagram 52 · line 5
Keeping Still (Mountain)
艮Gèn
Still the jaws. Words have order. Regret disappears.
Line statement
六五
艮其輔，言有序，悔亡。
Still the jaws. Words have order. Regret disappears.
Stillness at the jaws gives speech order in Line 5. Changing it makes Wind above Mountain, Hexagram 53. Ordered words and gradual development share a concern with sequence; the connection is a comparison between the two texts.
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.
One line changes