The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 11
What does I Ching hexagram 11, Peace, mean?
泰Earth 坤 above
Heaven 乾 below
Hexagram 11 of the I Ching is Peace (泰), Earth over Heaven. Its judgment opens “Peace: the small goes and the great comes.”
The judgment
泰：小往大來，吉亨。Peace: the small goes and the great comes. Good fortune and success.Zhou Yi 周易, 泰, judgment. Source
The image
天地交，泰；后以財成天地之道，輔相天地之宜，以左右民。Heaven and earth meet. The ruler shapes and completes their way and helps what suits them, to support the people.Zhou Yi 周易, 泰, image. Source
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.
- First line初九：拔茅茹以其彙，征吉。
- Second line九二：包荒。用馮河，不遐遺；朋亡。得尚于中行。
- Third line九三：无平不陂，无往不復，艱貞无咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福。
- Fourth line六四：翩翩，不富以其鄰；不戒以孚。
- Fifth line六五：帝乙歸妹，以祉，元吉。
- Top line上六：城復于隍，勿用師，自邑告命，貞吝。
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