Hexagram 40 · line 2
Deliverance
解Xiè
In the hunt, three foxes are caught and a yellow arrow is found. Constancy is favorable.
Line statement
九二
田獲三狐，得黃矢，貞吉。
In the hunt, three foxes are caught and a yellow arrow is found. Constancy is favorable.
Three foxes and a yellow arrow appear at Line 2, Water's firm center. Once that line yields, Earth lies below Thunder and the result is Hexagram 16, Enthusiasm.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match 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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