11 · Peace (TÀI)
Peace is a phase when Heaven and Earth communicate and people share a direction: small obstructions recede and larger possibility arrives. Its openness still requires proportion and care to endure.
The judgment
Peace: the small departs, the great arrives. Good fortune and success.
When obstruction recedes and constructive forces increase, it is time to connect people, resources, and plans in earnest.
Original Chinese text
泰，小往大來，吉亨。
The six lines
- 初九 · Line 1 — Pull up the grass with its roots intertwined. Set out with those connected to it: good fortune.
Original Chinese
拔茅茹，以其彙，征吉。
- 九二 · Line 2 — Embrace the rough, ford the river, leave none distant behind; set aside factions and honor the middle course.
Original Chinese
包荒，用馮河，不遐遺，朋亡，得尚于中行。
- 九三 · Line 3 — No level ground does not slope; no going lacks return. In difficulty, steadfastness brings no blame. Do not worry about trust; there is blessing in nourishment.
Original Chinese
無平不陂，無往不復，艱貞無咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福。
- 六四 · Line 4 — Fluttering, not rich, together with neighbors; without warning, through sincerity.
Original Chinese
翩翩不富，以其鄰，不戒以孚。
- 六五 · Line 5 — King Yi gives his younger sister in marriage; through blessing, great good fortune.
Original Chinese
帝乙歸妹，以祉元吉。
- 上六 · Line 6 — The city wall falls back into the moat. Do not use an army. Announce orders from one's own town; steadfastness brings regret.
Original Chinese
城復于隍，勿用師。自邑告命，貞吝。