Hexagram 62 · line 5
Preponderance of the Small
小過Xiǎo Guò
Dense clouds, no rain, from our western outskirts. The duke shoots with a corded arrow and takes what is in the cave.
Line statement
六五
密雲不雨，自我西郊，公弋取彼在穴。
Dense clouds, no rain, from our western outskirts. The duke shoots with a corded arrow and takes what is in the cave.
Dense clouds bring no rain, while the duke uses a corded arrow to take something hidden in a cave. Changing Line 5 makes Lake above Mountain, Hexagram 31. Influence supplies a theme to compare with these images of withheld rain and a sought target.
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