The 64 hexagrams / Hexagram 11
Peace
Hexagram 11 · 泰 Tài
Earth above · Heaven below
坤 palace · 三世
What hexagram 11 says
Heaven and earth in contact — the good passage. Use it to repair foundations, because the last line is the city wall falling back into the moat.
Above: Earth (Kun) — receptive, yielding, sustaining.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. The first line is the beginning of the situation, the sixth is its outer edge. The Chinese text is the classical line text; the line below it is a reading of what it is pointing at.
yang — solid
yang — solid
yang — solid
yin — broken
yin — broken
yin — broken
How to use this hexagram
If you cast this as your primary hexagram, it describes the situation you are in. If it came up as the transformed hexagram, it describes where things are heading once the changing lines have flipped. If you are only looking it up, read the judgment first — the line texts are for specific moments inside the situation, not for the situation as a whole.
Frequently asked
What does I Ching hexagram 11 mean?
Hexagram 11, Peace, is made of Earth above and Heaven below. Heaven and earth in contact — the good passage. Use it to repair foundations, because the last line is the city wall falling back into the moat.
How do I read hexagram 11 in a casting?
Read the primary hexagram first — it describes the situation as it stands. If any of your six lines were changing lines (sixes or nines from the coin tosses), read those lines' texts next: they mark where the situation is moving. The hexagram produced after those lines flip is the transformed hexagram, and it shows where the movement leads.
What are the six lines of hexagram 11?
Hexagram 11 has six lines, read from the bottom up. The texts below are given in order, first line (bottom) to sixth line (top).
Which palace does hexagram 11 belong to?
In the six-line (liuyao) system, hexagram 11 sits in the 坤 palace, third generation — the situation has fully inverted. The palace gives the hexagram its ruling element, and from that element the Six Relatives are assigned to each line.