Hexagram 11 · 泰 · tài
Hexagram 11. Tài · Peace
☷☰ Earth over heaven: Kūn above, Qián below.
In Thai (we see) the little gone and the great come. (It indicates that) there will be good fortune, with progress and success.
In Thai (we see) the little gone and the great come. (It indicates that) there will be good fortune, with progress and success.
Heaven and earth commune, the powers of light are growing: a time of harmony and rise. Everything cooperates — build connections, expand your work, bring designs to fruit. Only remember that flowering does not last: guard the balance and do not leave the small unwatched.
The Image
Heaven has moved below, earth has risen above: the forces move toward each other and everything communicates. A rare state of the system, when the top hears the bottom, management hears the doers, the design hears the material. Use the open channels: negotiate, launch, connect people. And build in durability: flowering does not collapse in a day, but it always ends.
Interpretation of hexagram 11
XI. The Thai Hexagram. What is said on line 6 is good, but is only a truism. The whole course has been shown; if every step has been right and appropriate, the issue will be very good.
The lines of hexagram 11
First line
The first line, undivided, suggests the idea of grass pulled up, and bringing with it other stalks with whose roots it is connected. Advance (on the part of its subject) will be fortunate.
resources, but calling in his neighbours. (They all come) not as having received warning, but in the sincerity (of their hearts).
Second line
The second line, undivided, shows one who can bear with the uncultivated, will cross the Ho 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.
XI. The language of the Thwan has reference to the form of Thai, with the three strong lines of Khien below, and the three weak lines of Khwan above. The former are ‘the great,’active and vigorous; the latter are ‘ the small,’ inactive and submissive. But where have the former ‘ conte ’ from, and whither are the latter ‘ gone ?’ In many editions of the Yi beneath the hexagram of Thai
Third line
The third line, undivided, shows that, while there is no state of peace that is not liable to be disturbed, and no departure (of evil men) so that they shall not return, yet when one is firm and correct, as he realises the distresses that may arise, he will commit no error. There is no occasion for sadness at the certainty (of such recurring changes); and in this mood the happiness (of the present) may be (long) enjoyed.
here, there appears that of Kwei Mei, the 54th in order
Fourth line
The fourth line, divided, shows its subject fluttering (down);—not relying on his own rich
which becomes ThSi, if the third and fourth lines exchange places. But in the notes on the Thwan, in the first Appendix, on hexa¬ gram 6, I have spoken of the doctrine of ‘ changing figures,’ and intimated my disbelief of it. The different hexagrams arose necessarily by the continued manipulation of the undivided and divided lines, and placing them each over itself and over the other. When king Wan wrote these Thwan, he was taking the 64 hexa¬ grams, as they were ready to his hand, and not forming one from another by any process of divination. The ‘gone’ and ‘come’ are merely equivalent to ‘ below ’ and ‘ above,’ in the lower trigram or in the upper.
Fifth line
The fifth line, divided, reminds us of (king) Tt-yi’s (rule about the) marriage of his younger sister. By such a course there is happiness and there will be great good fortune.
A course in which the motive forces a*e represented by the three strong, and the opposing by the three weak lines, must be pro¬ gressive and successful. ThSi is called the hexagram of the first month of the year, the first month of the natural spring, when for six months, through the fostering sun and genial skies, the pro¬ cesses of growth will be going on.
Top line
The sixth line, divided, shows us the city wall returned into the moat. It is not the time to use the army. (The subject of the line) may, indeed, announce his orders to the people of his own city; but however correct and firm he may be, he will have cause for regret.
THE PHI HEXAGRAM.
Did hexagram 11 come up in your reading? The oracle itself gives the full reading, with changing lines and the second hexagram.
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