Hexagram 52, Gèn (Keeping Still): Line 2
艮卦六二 · 艮为山 · 中文版
六二：艮其腓，不拯其随，其心不快。
The line (Legge)
The second SIX, divided, shows its subject keeping the calves of his legs at rest. He cannot help (the subject of the line above) whom he follows, and is dissatisfied in his mind.
Small Image commentary
'He cannot help him whom he follows:'(he whom he follows) will not retreat to listen to him.
象曰：不拯其随，未退听也。
In plain words
Keeping the calves still, but unable to save the one it follows: the heart is not glad. The calf moves with the thigh. The second line is central and correct and can stop itself, but the third line it follows is too hard to stop, and it cannot help it. The Small Image says the third line will not step back and listen.
Applying it to your situation
If you can stop yourself but cannot hold back someone close to you, this line suggests that unease is natural. Have you done what you can?
Position
A broken (yin) line in the second place, which is a yin (even) place, so it is in its proper place. It holds the centre of the lower trigram. Its partner is line 5; both are yin, so they do not respond.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Gèn changes into Hexagram 18 Gǔ (Repairing the Spoiled). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·艮之蛊.
A recorded case from Takashima
Gen to Gu: whether to halt a mine: Takashima's friend Ishizaka asked about his mine and received the second line of Gen, "keeping the calves still; unable to help the one he follows; his heart is not glad". From "the calf" Takashima placed the ore at the back of the mountain, low on the slope; he added that someone was pushing to halt work and the others could not stop it, so it was best to step back and wait about three years, until the fifth line, for help to revive it.
The hexagram
Hexagram 52 Gèn (Keeping Still). The Judgment: When one's resting is like that of the back, and he loses all consciousness of self; when he walks in his courtyard, and does not see any (of the persons) in it,--there will be no error.
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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.