Hexagram 55 · line 2

Abundance

豐Fēng

The screen is so dense that the Dipper is seen at noon. Going meets suspicion and hostility. Sincerity that opens understanding is favorable.

Line statement

六二

豐其蔀,日中見斗。往得疑疾,有孚發若,吉。

The screen is so dense that the Dipper is seen at noon. Going meets suspicion and hostility. Sincerity that opens understanding is favorable.

Noon is obscured enough for the Dipper to appear, and advancing meets suspicion and hostility. The line favors sincerity that opens understanding. Changing Line 2 makes Heaven below Thunder, Hexagram 34, contrasting obscured light with great power.

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

Moving to 34 · The Power of the Great