Hexagram 13 · line 2

Fellowship

同人Tóng Rén

Fellowship confined to the ancestral clan. This brings constraint.

Line statement

六二

同人于宗,吝。

Fellowship confined to the ancestral clan. This brings constraint.

Line 2 is the figure's sole yielding line, centered within lower fire; here fellowship is confined to the ancestral clan. If it becomes firm, all six lines are unbroken and the result is Hexagram 1.

Computed position

How this place works

Trigram position
inner · center

Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.

Polarity and place
yin in an even place: aligned

Its yin polarity matches 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 1 · The Creative