Hexagram 39 · line 2
Obstruction
蹇Jiǎn
The king's servant meets obstruction upon obstruction, not for the sake of the self.
Line statement
六二
王臣蹇蹇，匪躬之故。
The king's servant meets obstruction upon obstruction, not for the sake of the self.
Line 2 bears repeated difficulty in service to the king rather than for the self. Its change turns lower Mountain into Wind and produces Hexagram 48, The Well beneath Water.
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