Hexagram 20 · line 2
Contemplation
觀Guān
Peering through a narrow opening. A woman’s constancy is beneficial.
Line statement
六二
闚觀，利女貞。
Peering through a narrow opening. A woman’s constancy is beneficial.
Line 2 is yielding and centered, but its view is confined to a narrow opening. When this line becomes firm, lower earth turns to water and the result is Hexagram 59.
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.
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