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.

One line changes

Moving to 35 · Progress