Hexagram 12: Standstill天地否 · Pǐ

• Upper trigram　Qián, Heaven: strength, creation and the drive to move forward.
• Lower trigram　Kūn, Earth: receptivity, support and going with the flow.

The Judgment

Standstill, with the wrong people. It does not further the noble one's perseverance. The great departs, the small approaches.

否之匪人，不利君子貞，大往小來。

Our plain English rendering, with the Zhouyi original

Reading

Heaven and earth are out of touch for now: a blocked period. Today suits doing your own part, keeping a low profile, and putting your strength into what you can control.

Something to do today

• Focus today on finishing one piece of work that is within your own control.

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.