Hexagram 10 · line 2
Treading
履Lǚ
The path trodden is broad and level. A secluded person's constancy is favorable.
Line statement
九二
履道坦坦，幽人貞吉。
The path trodden is broad and level. A secluded person's constancy is favorable.
The broad, level path belongs to the centered second place and its secluded occupant; a yielding line here changes lower lake to thunder and gives Hexagram 25.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes