Is line 5 of Dispersing in its correct place?

It is in its correct place (當位): a yang line in an odd position or a yin line in an even one, which the tradition reads as a line at ease where it stands. It is central (中): the middle line of its trigram, the position the commentaries read as balanced and most favourable.

Hexagram 59, line 5

九五Line 5 of Dispersing

Nine in the fifth place · 渙 huàn

the great proclamationlike sweatscattering the stores

爻辭 The line text

渙汗其大號，渙王居，无咎。

The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject amidst the dispersion issuing his great announcements as the perspiration (flows from his body). He scatters abroad (also) the accumulations in the royal granaries. There will be no error.

Its symbolism

王居无咎，正位也。

'The accumulations of the royal (granaries) are dispersed, and there is no error:'—this is due to the correctness of the position.

In plain words

Line five is the ruler of the hexagram, yang in the central and correct place of the upper trigram, the king who in the Judgment 'approaches the temple'. In the dispersal it 'issues the great proclamation like sweat' — sweat because once it has left the body it cannot be called back, so the command is irrevocable and reaches everywhere — and it 'disperses the royal dwelling', opening what the king has stored to the people. For a ruler in a time of scattering this is the right act, and the text says no blame. The small Image explains: it is the correctness of the position (正位); the king who stands in the centre may give away what the centre holds.

If this line is changing

If you are the one in charge, now is the time for a clear, public commitment you cannot take back, and for opening what you have been holding in reserve.

Where the line stands

A solid line, yang — written 九 (nine), the number of an old yang line that moves when cast.
It is in its correct place (當位): a yang line in an odd position or a yin line in an even one, which the tradition reads as a line at ease where it stands.
It is central (中): the middle line of its trigram, the position the commentaries read as balanced and most favourable.
It belongs to the upper trigram 巽 Xun (the Gentle) (wind).
It has no correspondence (無應) with line 2: both lines are yang, so this line must find its support in its neighbours or in itself.

之卦 When this line moves

渙 Dispersing becomes ䷃ 4 蒙 Immaturity

A spring at the foot of a mountain: youthful ignorance that can be taught. Success comes to the learner who asks sincerely — the teacher does not chase the student.

What it becomes4 · 蒙 Immaturityméng

The six lines of 渙 Dispersing

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Questions about this line

What does Nine in the fifth place of hexagram 59, Dispersing, mean?: Line five is the ruler of the hexagram, yang in the central and correct place of the upper trigram, the king who in the Judgment 'approaches the temple'. In the dispersal it 'issues the great proclamation like sweat' — sweat because once it has left the body it cannot be called back, so the command is irrevocable and reaches everywhere — and it 'disperses the royal dwelling', opening what the king has stored to the people. For a ruler in a time of scattering this is the right act, and the text says no blame. The small Image explains: it is the correctness of the position (正位); the king who stands in the centre may give away what the centre holds.
What does hexagram 59 become when line 5 changes?: Dispersing becomes hexagram 4, 蒙 Immaturity: A spring at the foot of a mountain: youthful ignorance that can be taught. Success comes to the learner who asks sincerely — the teacher does not chase the student.
Is line 5 of Dispersing in its correct place?: It is in its correct place (當位): a yang line in an odd position or a yin line in an even one, which the tradition reads as a line at ease where it stands. It is central (中): the middle line of its trigram, the position the commentaries read as balanced and most favourable.

Cast a reading Hexagram 59 in full Changing lines explained

Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).