Hexagram 56 · line 5
The Wanderer
旅Lǚ
Shooting a pheasant, one arrow is lost. In the end, praise and an appointment are received.
Line statement
六五
射雉，一矢亡，終以譽命。
Shooting a pheasant, one arrow is lost. In the end, praise and an appointment are received.
At Line 5, one arrow is spent in shooting the pheasant; the passage ends with praise and an appointment. Its change makes Heaven above Mountain, Hexagram 33. The comparison places public recognition beside retreat.
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