Hexagram 11: Peace地天泰 · Tài
- Upper trigram Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.
- Lower trigram Qián, Heaven: strength, creation and the drive to move forward.
The Judgment
The small departs, the great approaches. Good fortune and success.
小往大來,吉亨。
Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original
Reading
Heaven and earth are in communion: flow and harmony. Today suits moving cooperation and exchange forward, while staying humble and treasuring the moment when things go well.
Something to do today
- While you are in good form today, move forward one thing that needs coordinating with others.
How a hexagram is cast
The three-coin method: toss three coins together, counting heads as 3 and tails as 2. The total, 6, 7, 8 or 9, gives one line; six tosses, recorded from the bottom up, make a hexagram. A 6 (old yin) or 9 (old yang) is a changing line, which turns this hexagram into another and shows where things are heading.