Hexagram 11 for work
Hexagram 11 Prosperity for work and career
In work Tai is the open channel: management and staff in communication, a team whose aims agree, a season with the capable inside and the obstructive on their way out. The Tuan says the inner trigram is strength and the outer compliance, 'the way of the superior person grows.' The Great Image gives the executive's job: shape and complete what the conditions allow, and help what fits them along, for the benefit of all below.
The lines mark the arc of a good period. One advances with its own kind; two is the ideal administrator, broad, bold, mindful of the distant and free of factions; three is the first sign that the plain has a slope; four and five are leadership coming down to meet talent, with five the hexagram's great alliance; six is the slide back into the moat when orders have gone slack. A changing line in the lower trigram says the good time is building and asks for generosity; in the upper trigram it is mature, and the question is whether you still tend it.
The hexagram in brief
Earth above and heaven below, their energies meeting and mingling. The small departs, the great arrives: open communication, prosperity, a flourishing time.
Enjoy it, share it and tend it: good times last longer when you stay humble and keep the channels open.
The judgment
泰：小往大來，吉亨。In Thâi (we see) the little gone and the great come. (It indicates that) there will be good fortune, with progress and success.
Which line changed?
A changing line sharpens the answer. Each line of 泰 Prosperity has its own page:
- 初九Nine at the beginninggrass with its roots · rising together · aim outward
- 九二Nine in the second placebearing the rough · fording the river · no cliques
- 九三Nine in the third placeno plain without slope · the turning point · enjoy with care
- 六四Six in the fourth placefluttering down · not rich · sincere neighbours
- 六五Six in the fifth placeDi Yi marries his sister · ruler humbles himself · central wish
- 上六Six at the topwall into the moat · do not use force · orders in disorder
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Questions
- What does hexagram 11, Prosperity, mean for a career question?
- In work Tai is the open channel: management and staff in communication, a team whose aims agree, a season with the capable inside and the obstructive on their way out. The Tuan says the inner trigram is strength and the outer compliance, 'the way of the superior person grows.' The Great Image gives the executive's job: shape and complete what the conditions allow, and help what fits them along, for the benefit of all below.
- What does Hexagram 11, 泰 Prosperity, mean?
- Earth above and heaven below, their energies meeting and mingling. The small departs, the great arrives: open communication, prosperity, a flourishing time.
Chinese text: the received Zhouyi (Wuyingdian lineage). English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East XVI, 1882 (public domain).