Hexagram 47 · line 2
Oppression
困Kùn
Pressed amid wine and food. Red ceremonial knee covers are arriving. Making a sacrificial offering is beneficial. Setting out brings misfortune, yet there is no fault.
Line statement
九二
困于酒食，朱紱方來，利用享祀。征凶，无咎。
Pressed amid wine and food. Red ceremonial knee covers are arriving. Making a sacrificial offering is beneficial. Setting out brings misfortune, yet there is no fault.
Food and wine do not remove the pressure in Line 2. The passage favors a sincere offering but marks advance as misfortune. Its change produces Hexagram 45, Earth below Lake; that figure’s gathering and ritual language offers a contrast with constraint.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes