Hexagram 19 · line 2
Approach
臨Lín
Approaching together through shared influence. Favorable; nothing is without benefit.
Line statement
九二
咸臨，吉，无不利。
Approaching together through shared influence. Favorable; nothing is without benefit.
Shared approach continues at the centered second line; turning it yielding changes lower lake to thunder, leaving the bottom as the only firm line of Hexagram 24.
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