Hexagram 50 · line 2
The Cauldron
鼎Dǐng
The cauldron contains food. My counterpart is afflicted and cannot approach me. Favorable.
Line statement
九二
鼎有實，我仇有疾，不我能即，吉。
The cauldron contains food. My counterpart is afflicted and cannot approach me. Favorable.
The cauldron has food, but the afflicted counterpart cannot approach. Line 2 changes lower Wind to Mountain, producing Hexagram 56. The comparison places nourishment beside a traveler’s limited support.
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.
One line changes