Hexagram 11 · line 3
Peace
泰Tài
No level ground is without a slope; no departure is without return. Constancy amid difficulty brings no fault. Do not be anxious about what is certain to return. In food there is blessing.
Line statement
九三
无平不陂，无往不復。艱貞无咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福。
No level ground is without a slope; no departure is without return. Constancy amid difficulty brings no fault. Do not be anxious about what is certain to return. In food there is blessing.
The third line closes inner heaven at the point where level ground turns toward a slope and departure toward return. When it yields, lower heaven becomes lake and the result is Hexagram 19.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an odd place: aligned
Its yang polarity matches the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 6: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes