Hexagram 36 · line 2
Darkening of the Light
明夷Míng Yí
The light is darkened; the left thigh is wounded. A strong horse is used for rescue. Favorable.
Line statement
六二
明夷，夷于左股，用拯馬壯，吉。
The light is darkened; the left thigh is wounded. A strong horse is used for rescue. Favorable.
Line 2 is wounded in the thigh but remains within reach of rescue. Making Fire's center firm turns the lower trigram into Heaven and produces Hexagram 11, Heaven beneath Earth.
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