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Hexagram 11 · Tài

Peace

泰 · tài
Heaven and earth unite; prosperity flows freely.
Kūn · Earth
above
Qián · Heaven
below

Core Meaning

The Judgment: Peace: the small departs and the great arrives. Good fortune and success.
The Image: Heaven and earth unite. So the ruler completes and orders their courses, and brings their gifts to the people.

Heaven below, earth above: the great forces moving toward each other, mingling, producing spring. Tài is peace and flowering — the season when the small departs, the great arrives, and effort meets a favorable current.

Its counsel is to use such a season actively: cross the rivers you have postponed, include the distant, bear with the imperfect. And remember its closing teaching — no plain without a slope. Peace is a season to be tended, not a possession to be assumed.

Peace in Your Question

Love & Relationships

Tài is among the most favorable hexagrams for love: openness flows both ways, misunderstandings dissolve easily, and unions deepen naturally. Its only warning is complacency — harmony lasts when actively cultivated. Keep doing, in the good season, the generous things that created the good season.

Career & Money

Professionally, Tài marks the aligned moment: support above, energy below, obstacles thinning. Move the stalled projects now; undertake the bold crossing. Its management wisdom endures — bear with the uncultured, don't neglect the distant, walk the middle. And bank some of the harvest: the third line's slope will someday need your reserves.

Personal Growth

Inwardly, Tài is the state where your own heaven and earth communicate — intention and daily life, ideal and habit, no longer at war. The practice is gratitude with vigilance: enjoy the ease honestly, while remaining the kind of person who caused it. Prosperity untended is simply the slope's beginning.

The Six Lines

A line speaks only when it is a changing line in your own casting.

Line 1
Pull up one blade of ribbon grass and the whole sod comes with it. Like-minded people rise together: undertakings bring good fortune.
Line 2
Bear with the uncultured; cross the river without a boat; do not neglect the distant; let factions go. Walk the middle way.
Line 3
No plain without a slope to follow it; no going without a return. Steadfastness through hardship is without blame; savor the good fortune still in hand.
Line 4
He descends, light-winged and unpretending, to those below, sincere and without boasting of wealth.
Line 5
The sovereign gives his daughter in marriage: blessing flows from above. Supreme good fortune.
Line 6
The wall crumbles back into the moat. Use no force now; turn inward to your own circle. Insisting outwardly brings humiliation.

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