I Ching · Hexagram 12
Pǐ: Standstill
Heaven drifts up and earth sinks down, and the two no longer meet. Pi is a blocked time when communication fails and effort seems to go nowhere.
- Keywords
- Stagnation, disconnection, integrity, withdrawal
- Upper trigram
- Heaven (Qian)
- Lower trigram
- Earth (Kun)
- Advice
- Keep your integrity, avoid alliances that compromise you, and wait for the opening to return.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.