Hexagram 43 · line 2
Breakthrough
夬Guài
An alarmed cry. Armed men appear at dusk and night; do not worry.
Line statement
九二
惕號，莫夜有戎，勿恤。
An alarmed cry. Armed men appear at dusk and night; do not worry.
Line 2 sounds an alarm and remains watchful through the night. Its change turns lower Heaven into Fire and produces Hexagram 49, Revolution below Lake.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes