Hexagram 11
Peace
Earth over Heaven
The judgment
小往大来，吉亨Heaven below and earth above: the two trade back and forth and nothing blocks them. Traffic like that is also unguarded.
The image
The small departs and the great arrives. What is low rises, and what is high comes down to meet it.
The six lines
Read from the bottom up. A line that moves is read here, and read again in the hexagram it becomes.
- 初九Line 1
拔茅茹以其汇，征吉
A whole cluster pulls up together at the start; moving now rides the momentum.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 九二Line 2
包荒。用冯河，不遐遗；朋亡。得尚于中行
An empty basket still holds the coarse and the roundabout. Wading the big river barefoot, not one person far off is left behind; yet the circle close at hand has scattered. Walking the middle of the road, one catches the regard from above.
- 九三Line 3
无平不陂，无往不复，艰贞无咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福
Flat ground runs out into a slope, and every road out has a stretch that folds back. Hold the hard part, and there is no need to keep fretting over trust given; the bowl on the table fills itself.
Marked in the textno blame
- 六四Line 4
翩翩，不富以其邻；不戒以孚
Slipping lightly down beside the seat of power without wealth, relying on unguarded trust.
- 六五Line 5
帝乙归妹，以祉，元吉
Emperor Yi married his daughter into a house below his own, letting her rank fall a step. That step is not a loss: it ties two sides into one current, and the blessing comes in through that door.
Marked in the textauspicious
- 上六Line 6
城复于隍，勿用师，自邑告命，贞吝
The wall crumbles back into the moat; no use marshaling anyone now, only setting things straight at home.
Marked in the textnarrow going
Where each changing line leads
Flip one line and it is a different hexagram. These are the six it becomes.
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The classical text is the Zhouyi, public domain, checked against a Wikisource transcript. The readings are ours. Daily hexagram