Hexagram 60 · line 2
Limitation
節Jié
Not going out beyond the outer courtyard. Misfortune.
Line statement
九二
不出門庭，凶。
Not going out beyond the outer courtyard. Misfortune.
Line 2 stays within the outer courtyard but receives a verdict of misfortune, unlike Line 1. The traditional contrast concerns the right time to remain still or act. Its change makes Thunder below Water, Hexagram 3, adding the image of a difficult beginning.
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