Hexagram 5 is conventionally named Waiting, and both the name and its usual gloss are worth examining, because the underlying word carries more than English "waiting" does.
The line texts place the waiting somewhere specific each time: waiting in the meadow, in the sand, in the mud, in blood, with wine and food, and finally in a pit, where three uninvited guests arrive. That sequence moves steadily closer to danger. This is not a hexagram about patience in the abstract; it describes a person waiting while something approaches, and the ground under them getting worse.
The judgement in Wilhelm speaks of sincerity, of light and success, and of it furthering to cross the great water, one of the book's recurring formulas, usually taken as a signal that a major undertaking is favoured. That phrase appears throughout the text and is one of the clearest indications of its practical origins; crossing a large river was a real logistical decision with real risk, and a diviner was being asked about it.
Some translators have argued that the hexagram's name relates to a sacrificial or rain-making rite rather than to waiting as such. That reading is not the standard one, and it is offered here as a live minority position rather than as a correction. What can be said is that the received name arrives through a long commentarial tradition and that the line texts do not obviously require it.
The distinction matters for practice. Waiting understood as patience counsels doing nothing. Waiting understood as a rite counsels doing something specific and then stopping, which is a different instruction and, in most spreads, a more useful one.