Is line 2 of Brightness (Fire) in its correct place?

It is in its correct place (當位): a yang line in an odd position or a yin line in an even one, which the tradition reads as a line at ease where it stands. It is central (中): the middle line of its trigram, the position the commentaries read as balanced and most favourable.

Hexagram 30, line 2

六二Line 2 of Brightness (Fire)

Six in the second place · 離 lí

yellow lightthe meangreat good fortune

爻辭 The line text

黃離，元吉。

The second line, divided, shows its subject in his place in yellow. There will be great good fortune.

Its symbolism

黃離元吉，得中道也。

'The great good fortune (from the subject of the second line) occupying his place in yellow' is owing to his holding the course of the due mean.

In plain words

'Yellow clinging: great good fortune.' Yellow is the colour of the centre and of the earth, and line two is yin in the central and correct place of the lower Li — the line the Tuan commentary means when it says 'the yielding clings to what is central and correct, hence success'. This is the ruler of the hexagram and its ideal: brightness that is warm rather than glaring, attached to the right place and content there. The small Image needs only four characters, 'it has attained the central way' (得中道也). Where every other line of Li burns, hurries, weeps or fights, this one simply shines in its place, and the verdict 元吉 is the hexagram's highest.

If this line is changing

Stay exactly where you are and keep doing what you are doing with the same even warmth; this is the position the whole hexagram holds up as the model.

Where the line stands

A broken line, yin — written 六 (six), the number of an old yin line that moves when cast.
It is in its correct place (當位): a yang line in an odd position or a yin line in an even one, which the tradition reads as a line at ease where it stands.
It is central (中): the middle line of its trigram, the position the commentaries read as balanced and most favourable.
It belongs to the lower trigram 離 Li (the Clinging) (fire).
It has no correspondence (無應) with line 5: both lines are yin, so this line must find its support in its neighbours or in itself.

之卦 When this line moves

離 Brightness (Fire) becomes ䷍ 14 大有 Great Holdings

Fire above heaven: the sun lighting everything. Great holdings and supreme success — one yielding line at the centre holds the respect of all the strong ones.

What it becomes14 · 大有 Great Holdingsdà yǒu

The six lines of 離 Brightness (Fire)

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Questions about this line

What does Six in the second place of hexagram 30, Brightness (Fire), mean?: 'Yellow clinging: great good fortune.' Yellow is the colour of the centre and of the earth, and line two is yin in the central and correct place of the lower Li — the line the Tuan commentary means when it says 'the yielding clings to what is central and correct, hence success'. This is the ruler of the hexagram and its ideal: brightness that is warm rather than glaring, attached to the right place and content there. The small Image needs only four characters, 'it has attained the central way' (得中道也). Where every other line of Li burns, hurries, weeps or fights, this one simply shines in its place, and the verdict 元吉 is the hexagram's highest.
What does hexagram 30 become when line 2 changes?: Brightness (Fire) becomes hexagram 14, 大有 Great Holdings: Fire above heaven: the sun lighting everything. Great holdings and supreme success — one yielding line at the centre holds the respect of all the strong ones.
Is line 2 of Brightness (Fire) in its correct place?: It is in its correct place (當位): a yang line in an odd position or a yin line in an even one, which the tradition reads as a line at ease where it stands. It is central (中): the middle line of its trigram, the position the commentaries read as balanced and most favourable.

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Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).