Hexagram 52 · line 2
Keeping Still (Mountain)
艮Gèn
Still the calves. Unable to rescue the one being followed, the heart is not glad.
Line statement
六二
艮其腓，不拯其隨，其心不快。
Still the calves. Unable to rescue the one being followed, the heart is not glad.
Line 2 stills the calves but cannot help the one it follows, leaving the heart unhappy. Changing it makes Wind below Mountain, Hexagram 18. The relation invites comparison between frustrated following and the work of addressing what has decayed.
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: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes