Hexagram 17 · line 2
Following
隨Suí
Bound to the young boy, losing the mature man.
Line statement
六二
係小子，失丈夫。
Bound to the young boy, losing the mature man.
Line 2 is yielding and centered, binding to the young boy nearby while losing the mature man above; firming this place turns lower thunder into lake and produces the doubled-lake Hexagram 58.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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