Hexagram 57 · line 2
The Gentle (Wind)
巽Xùn
Submission beneath the bed. Scribes and ritual specialists are employed in great number. Favorable. No fault.
Line statement
九二
巽在床下，用史巫紛若，吉，无咎。
Submission beneath the bed. Scribes and ritual specialists are employed in great number. Favorable. No fault.
The low position beneath a bed accompanies a profusion of scribes and ritual specialists in Line 2. Traditional readings understand this as earnest submission and inquiry. Its change makes Mountain below Wind, Hexagram 53, placing the scene beside gradual development.
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.
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