Hexagram 11 · line 6
Peace
泰Tài
The city wall falls back into its moat. Do not use the army. Orders are announced from one’s own town. Difficulty even with constancy.
Line statement
上六
城復于隍，勿用師。自邑告命，貞吝。
The city wall falls back into its moat. Do not use the army. Orders are announced from one’s own town. Difficulty even with constancy.
At the yielding top line, the city wall collapses into its own moat, undoing the work that raised it. Changing the line to firm makes upper earth a mountain and produces Hexagram 26.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes