Hexagram 37 · line 2
The Family
家人Jiā Rén
No independent undertaking; attending to food within the household. Constancy is favorable.
Line statement
六二
无攸遂，在中饋，貞吉。
No independent undertaking; attending to food within the household. Constancy is favorable.
Food preparation occupies Line 2 within the received household order; the line does not turn that role into a modern gender rule. Making the center firm gives Heaven below Wind and produces Hexagram 9.
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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