Hexagram 9 · line 2
The Taming Power of the Small
小畜Xiǎo Xù
Drawn back together. Favorable.
Line statement
九二
牽復吉。
Drawn back together. Favorable.
Line 2 returns in company with the first firm line, joining strength to a shared course. Changing it to yielding turns lower heaven into fire and produces Hexagram 37.
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