Hexagram 16 · line 2
Enthusiasm
豫Yù
Firm as stone, not waiting to the end of the day. Constancy is favorable.
Line statement
六二
介于石，不終日，貞吉。
Firm as stone, not waiting to the end of the day. Constancy is favorable.
Stone-like firmness and action before day's end are assigned to the centered second line. When this yielding line becomes firm, lower earth turns to water and the result is Hexagram 40.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes