Hexagram 5 · line 2
Waiting
需Xū
Waiting on the sand. There is some criticism. In the end, favorable.
Line statement
九二
需于沙，小有言，終吉。
Waiting on the sand. There is some criticism. In the end, favorable.
Sand marks the centered second place, nearer the hazard but not yet in it; a yielding line here produces Hexagram 63 and its alternating line pattern.
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