Hexagram 24 · line 2
Return
復Fù
An admirable return. Favorable.
Line statement
六二
休復，吉。
An admirable return. Favorable.
Line 2 is close to the returning firm line at the base. The traditional reading connects its admirable return with following that example. Changing Line 2 makes Earth above Lake, Hexagram 19.
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