Hexagram 11, Tài (Peace): Line 2
泰卦九二 · 地天泰 · 中文版
九二：包荒，用冯河，不遐遗，朋亡，得尚于中行。
The line (Legge)
The second NINE, undivided, shows one who can bear with the uncultivated, will cross the He without a boat, does not forget the distant, and has no (selfish) friendships. Thus does he prove himself acting in accordance with the course of the due Mean.
Small Image commentary
'He bears with the uncultivated, and proves himself acting in accordance with the due mean:' - for (his intelligence is) bright and (his capacity is) great.
象曰：包荒得尚于中行，以光大也。
In plain words
Bearing with the uncultivated, crossing the river on foot, not neglecting those far away, forming no cliques: so one keeps in step with the middle way. Crossing on foot, without a boat, stands for resolve; forming no cliques means not favouring one's own faction. The second line is strong and central and corresponds to the fifth; it is the main line for governing a time of peace. The Small Image calls this bright and great.
Applying it to your situation
If you lead a team or run an area of work, this line suggests being both tolerant and decisive, and not playing favourites. Is there a person or corner you have been overlooking?
Position
A solid (yang) line in the second place, which is a yin (even) place, so it is not in its proper place. It holds the centre of the lower trigram. Its partner is line 5; one is yin and the other yang, so they respond to each other.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Tài changes into Hexagram 36 Míng Yí (Darkening of the Light). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·泰之明夷.
A recorded case from Takashima
Tai to Ming Yi: reclaiming marshland in Hitachi: A Tokyo friend wanted to reclaim marshland in Hitachi and received the second line of Tai, "embracing the wild; fording the river". Takashima read it as buying waste land and working hard on drainage, and went on to argue that the rich do better to put their money into land others can farm than to leave heirs living idle.
The hexagram
Hexagram 11 Tài (Peace). The Judgment: In Tai (we see) the little gone and the great come. (It indicates that) there will be good fortune, with progress and success.
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English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.