Hexagram 18 · line 2
Work on What Has Been Spoiled
蠱Gǔ
Repairing what the mother has spoiled. Do not insist on rigid constancy.
Line statement
九二
幹母之蠱，不可貞。
Repairing what the mother has spoiled. Do not insist on rigid constancy.
Firm, centered Line 2 addresses damage inherited from the mother. The correction calls for tact rather than forcing a rigid standard onto the relationship. Changing the line to yielding turns lower wind to mountain and produces Hexagram 52.
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