Ming I / Darkening of the Light

above: K'un The Receptive, Earth
below: Li The Clinging, Flame

The fifth [six], divided, shows how the count of Ki fulfilled the condition indicated by Ming I. It will be advantageous to be firm and correct.

Line 5 should be the place of the ruler or sovereign in the hexagram; but 6 is assigned as that place in Ming I. The officer occupying 5, the center of the upper trigram, and near to the sovereign, has his ideal in the count of Chi, whose action appears in the Shu, III. He is a historical personage.