Hexagram 33 · line 2
Retreat
遯Dùn
Held fast with the hide of a yellow ox; no one can loosen it.
Line statement
六二
執之用黃牛之革，莫之勝說。
Held fast with the hide of a yellow ox; no one can loosen it.
The yellow ox hide binds Line 2 at the center of inner Mountain. Its change makes Wind below Heaven and yields Hexagram 44, an encounter entering at the lower threshold.
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