Hexagram 26 · line 2

The Taming Power of the Great

大畜Dà Xù

The carriage's axle fastening comes off.

Line statement

九二

輿說輹。

The carriage's axle fastening comes off.

Line 2 sits at the center of lower Heaven, but the carriage has lost its fastening. Making this line yielding gives Fire below Mountain, Hexagram 22.

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: responsive

Its counterpart is Line 5; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.

One line changes

Moving to 22 · Grace