Hexagram 31 · line 2
Influence
咸Xián
Influence reaches the calves. Movement brings misfortune; staying in place is favorable.
Line statement
六二
咸其腓，凶，居吉。
Influence reaches the calves. Movement brings misfortune; staying in place is favorable.
Line 2 locates influence in the calf, where a step begins before the whole body follows. The change turns lower Mountain into Wind and produces Hexagram 28, Lake above Wind.
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.
One line changes