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Cast the I Ching · Hexagram 11 of 64

Hexagram Eleven

Peace

Heaven below earth: the great intermingling in which everything flourishes.

Kun: sustaining earth
Upper trigram · Kun
Qian: open sky
Lower trigram · Qian

The creative places itself below the receptive, and the two currents mingle — the classic image of a flourishing season. Peace describes conditions in which effort meets response: relationships open, work lands, the small departs and the great approaches. Its counsel is active tending, not complacency — prosperity of this kind is a garden, maintained by the same humility that produced it. Share the season; hoarded flourishing curdles.

On wealth

A genuinely favourable financial season: circulate, consolidate and tend it rather than assuming it tends itself.

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