Hexagram 61 · line 2
Inner Truth
中孚Zhōng Fú
A crane calls in the shade, and its young answers. I have a fine cup; I will share it with you.
Line statement
九二
鳴鶴在陰，其子和之。我有好爵，吾與爾靡之。
A crane calls in the shade, and its young answers. I have a fine cup; I will share it with you.
The crane’s call receives an answer from its young; the shared cup extends the image of response. Changing Line 2 makes Thunder below Wind, Hexagram 42. Increase offers a theme to compare with this exchange between those who respond to one another.
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