Hexagram 12

Hexagram 12 (Standstill) - Heaven over Earth - Hindrance, obstruction, stalemate, stagnation, impasse.

Hexagram 12

Hex12_Simple

12: Standstill

否 (pǐ)

 

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12: Standstill

Themes / Alternate Names / Structure

Hindrance, obstruction, stalemate, stagnation, impasse

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Heaven over Earth.

Hosts: Line 2 (Yin), Line 5 (Yang)

Opposite Hexagram: 11 (Peace)
Inverse Hexagram: 11 (Peace)
Mutual Hexagram: 53 (Development)

Trigram1_Heaven

Heaven Trigram

乾 qián

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Trigram1_Heaven

Heaven Trigram

Correspondences / Themes

#1
Father. Horse. Death/transformation. Head. Early winter. NW. Metal.

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The Creative, to empower, authority, inspiration, strength, innovation, ingenuity, divine inspiration.

Trigram8_Earth

Earth Trigram

坤 kūn

Trigram8_Earth

Earth Trigram

Correspondences / Themes

#8
Mother. Cow. Womb. Belly. Early Autumn. SW. Earth. Soil.

The Receptive, to give away, yielding, intuitive, devotional, nurturing and cultivating.

When a particular line of a hexagram changes from Yin to Yang or vice versa, a new "Change Hexagram" is created. The below section details each of the 6 Change Hexagrams for Hexagram 12

The principal line of the hexagram on which the central theme for divination focuses. In most (but not all) cases, the host resides in the second or fifth place (central places within their trigrams), of which the fifth place is most common.  Some hexagrams have more than one hosts. my color adobe mission uses Master Alfred Huang's The Complete I Ching as its reference guide for hexagram hosts.  The hexagram icons below with line detail show the Host line in BOLD outline.

 

When a hexagram is written in reverse order (Line 6 becomes Line 1, Line 5 becomes Line 2, etc), an Inverse Hexagram is created.

A hexagram's opposite is the hexagram where each Yin line is Yang and vice versa.  For example, hexagram 1 (The Creative, all Yang lines) and hexagram 2 (The Receptive, all Yin lines) are opposites.

A mutual hexagram is formed by the "mutual" trigrams formed by Lines 2/3/4 and Lines 3/4/5. 

Line Change Detail

 

This image shows what “change hexagram” results when each line changes from yin to yang (or vice versa).

The 6 flip boxes below show the changing hexagram pair for each line in larger detail.

Hex12_Simple

Line 1

 

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L1_Yin

Hex25_Simple

Line 1

L1_Yang

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Hex12_Simple

Line 2

 

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L2_Yin

Hex06_Simple

Line 2

L2_Yang

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Hex12_Simple

Line 3

 

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Hex33_Simple

Line 3

L3_Yang

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Hex12_Simple

Line 4

 

L4_Yang

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Hex35_Simple

Line 4

 

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L4_Yin

Hex12_Simple

Line 5

 

L5_Yang

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Hex45_Simple

Line 5

 

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L5_Yin

Hex12_Simple

Line 6

L6_Yang

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Hex45_Simple

Line 6

 

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