Hexagram 3 · line 2
Difficulty at the Beginning
屯Zhūn
Blocked and circling, the horse team turns back. The arrival is not a raider but a marriage seeker. The woman remains constant and does not consent to marriage; after ten years, she consents.
Line statement
六二
屯如邅如，乘馬班如。匪寇婚媾，女子貞不字，十年乃字。
Blocked and circling, the horse team turns back. The arrival is not a raider but a marriage seeker. The woman remains constant and does not consent to marriage; after ten years, she consents.
The passage distinguishes an approaching marriage seeker from a raider while leaving room for refusal and delay. Its ten years belong to the narrated scene, not a timetable for the reader. Changing Line 2, the lower center, produces Hexagram 60.
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.
One line changes