T'ai / Peace
above: K'un The Receptive, Earth
below: Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
Six at the top means:
The wall falls back into the moat.
Use no army now.
Make your commands known within your own town.
Perseverance brings humiliation.
The change alluded to in the middle of the hexagram has begun to take
place. The wall of the town sinks back into the moat from which it was
dug. The hour of doom is at hand. When matters have come to this pass,
we should submit to fate and not try to stave it off by violent
resistance. The one recourse left us is to hold our own within our
intimate circle. Should we persevere in trying to resist the evil in
the usual way, our collapse would only be more complete, and
humiliation would be the result.