Hexagram 64 · line 2
Before Completion
未濟Wèi Jì
Dragging the wheels. Constancy is favorable.
Line statement
九二
曳其輪,貞吉。
Dragging the wheels. Constancy is favorable.
Line 2 drags the wheels at the firm center of inner water, and constancy is favorable. Its movement yields Hexagram 35: earth replaces water beneath fire, setting restraint beside forward movement.
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: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
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