Hexagram 23 · line 2
Splitting Apart
剝Bō
Stripping the bed at its frame. Constancy is being destroyed. Misfortune.
Line statement
六二
剝床以辨，蔑貞凶。
Stripping the bed at its frame. Constancy is being destroyed. Misfortune.
At Line 2, stripping has moved from the feet into the bed's frame. A firm line here changes lower earth to water and gives Hexagram 4.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes