Hexagram 11: Peace

Hexagram 11, Peace (Tài, 泰), is formed of the upper trigram Earth (坤) over the lower trigram Heaven (乾). Below is the classical judgment, the six line texts, and how to read this hexagram in a reading.

The Judgment

Trigrams

The outer (upper) trigram Earth describes the situation as it meets the world; the inner (lower) trigram Heaven describes its inner disposition. Together they set the theme of Peace.

The Six Lines

• 初九 · Line 1 Pulling up reeds brings the whole cluster. Advancing together, good fortune.拔茅茹，以其汇，征吉。
• 九二 · Line 2 Embrace the unrefined, ford the river, neglect nothing distant, put faction aside — and walk the middle way with honor.包荒，用冯河，不遐遗；朋亡，得尚于中行。
• 九三 · Line 3 No plain without a slope, no going without return. Steadfast in hardship, no blame; there is blessing in your bread.无平不陂，无往不复；艰贞无咎，勿恤其孚，于食有福。
• 六四 · Line 4 Fluttering down, not flaunting wealth, joining neighbors in open trust.翩翩，不富，以其邻，不戒以孚。
• 六五 · Line 5 Emperor Yi gives his daughter in marriage: blessing and supreme good fortune.帝乙归妹，以祉元吉。
• 上六 · Line 6 The wall crumbles back into the moat. Use no force now; persistence brings regret.城复于隍，勿用师，自邑告命，贞吝。

Reading Hexagram 11 for Your Question

When Peace appears without changing lines, the judgment above stands as the whole answer. When you cast changing lines (a 6 or a 9), read those line texts first — they are the most specific guidance — then look to the relating hexagram they form for where the situation is heading. For love, career, or a decision, apply the theme of Peace to your own circumstances rather than reading it as a fixed prediction.