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{
  "hexagram": {
    "number": 11,
    "symbol": "䷊",
    "chinese": "泰",
    "english": "Peace",
    "pinyin": "Tài",
    "binary": "111000",
    "upperTrigram": "Earth",
    "lowerTrigram": "Heaven",
    "judgment": "The strong is inside and rising, the yielding is outside and coming down, so the two meet and everything moves. This is a fertile season, and the work is to organize it rather than to sit inside it.",
    "image": "Heaven sits beneath the earth, so the two rise and sink into each other and mingle. Divide the season into its parts and regulate them, so that people get the benefit of a good time instead of merely living through it.",
    "interpretation": {
      "general": "Heaven and earth are in harmony. This is a period of peace, prosperity, and natural flow where great things can be accomplished with relative ease. The strong and the yielding work together. Make the most of this fortunate time, as all seasons eventually change.",
      "love": "A harmonious time for relationships. Heaven and Earth are in accord, allowing deep connection. Nurture this peaceful period through mutual appreciation and shared growth.",
      "career": "Prosperity and harmony are present. Collaboration flourishes and obstacles clear. Use this favorable time to advance your goals while maintaining the balance.",
      "decision": "Conditions are favorable for positive outcomes. Move forward with your plans while maintaining the harmony that makes success possible. Share your good fortune.",
      "advice": "Peace comes when the great descends to meet the small and vice versa. Practice reciprocity and humility even in prosperity. Good times do not last forever: use them wisely."
    },
    "changingLines": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "text": "Pull up one stalk of grass and the tangled roots bring the others with it, so go forward.",
        "meaning": "The first place is the beginning, and this yang line does not move alone, because whatever is connected to it comes along. Advancement now carries a whole network with it. Move, and bring your people with you instead of climbing over them."
      },
      {
        "position": 2,
        "text": "Bear with the uncultivated, ford the river without waiting for a boat, do not forget the distant, and keep no faction.",
        "meaning": "The second place is inner and central, and this yang line has the breadth that a good season demands. Prosperity narrows people, and the correction is deliberate generosity in four directions at once. Include the rough, act when action is required, remember whoever is out of sight, and refuse the clique."
      },
      {
        "position": 3,
        "text": "No plain runs on without a slope and nothing departs without returning, so stay firm and eat your bread in peace.",
        "meaning": "The third place is the exposed threshold, and this yang line is the last of the strong lines, standing where the season is about to turn. Knowing the turn is coming is not pessimism, it is the only way to enjoy the present without being ambushed by it. Stay correct, refuse to grieve in advance, and take the good that is actually here."
      },
      {
        "position": 4,
        "text": "Fluttering down, not boasting of what you hold, going to your neighbours in good faith.",
        "meaning": "The fourth place is close to power, and this yin line comes down to meet the strength below rather than looking down on it. Rank held lightly is what keeps the exchange alive. Approach people directly and without display, and they will come without needing to be warned."
      },
      {
        "position": 5,
        "text": "The ruler gives his own sister in marriage, and the blessing is great.",
        "meaning": "This is the ruling line, and a yin line in the place of authority binds itself to the strength below by alliance instead of command. Power that condescends on purpose earns a loyalty that force cannot buy. Make the union, give up some precedence, and take the good fortune that comes of it."
      },
      {
        "position": 6,
        "text": "The wall crumbles back into the moat it was dug from; do not call out the army, and give your orders only at home.",
        "meaning": "The sixth place is past the peak, and this yin line stands where the good season collapses back into the ground it came from. Force will not hold the wall up, and using it now spends the little that is left. Draw in, govern what is genuinely yours, and accept the humiliation of a smaller field."
      }
    ]
  },
  "lines": [
    7,
    7,
    7,
    6,
    6,
    8
  ],
  "changingLinePositions": [
    4,
    5
  ],
  "resultingHexagram": {
    "number": 43,
    "symbol": "䷪",
    "chinese": "夬",
    "english": "Break-through (Resoluteness)",
    "pinyin": "Guài",
    "binary": "111110",
    "upperTrigram": "Lake",
    "lowerTrigram": "Heaven",
    "judgment": "One corruption remains at the top and it has to be named openly, in public, where everyone can see it. Speak the truth, understand the danger in speaking it, and do not reach for weapons.",
    "image": "The lake has risen to the top of heaven, water piled where it cannot possibly stay, and the burst is coming. Let what you have accumulated flow down to the people below you, and never settle into your own virtue as though it were an achievement.",
    "interpretation": {
      "general": "A decisive breakthrough is needed to remove a lingering negative influence. The situation calls for resolute action, but it must come through proper channels and righteous means. Make your position known openly and be prepared for confrontation, but do not resort to the methods of what you oppose.",
      "love": "Decisiveness is needed in matters of the heart. Bring what has been hidden into the open. Resolution comes through honest confrontation of the truth.",
      "career": "The time for decisive action has arrived. Expose and address what has been problematic. Act with determination but avoid using the same methods as your opponents.",
      "decision": "Make your position known firmly but without aggression. The breakthrough is at hand. Be resolute but generous in victory.",
      "advice": "Resoluteness requires making your case at the court, announcing even to your own allies the danger. Arm yourself with virtue, not weapons. Walk your talk."
    },
    "changingLines": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "text": "Strength shows in the advancing toes, and the querent goes out without the power to finish, which is a fault.",
        "meaning": "A strong line at the very beginning, in a situation whose entire difficulty sits at the top. The querent has the resolve and none of the preparation. Going now is not courage, it is a mistake with your name written on it."
      },
      {
        "position": 2,
        "text": "A cry of alarm goes up and armed men are moving in the night, and the querent has no need to be afraid.",
        "meaning": "Strong and central, this line is ready, and the readiness is exactly why the ambush fails. The danger is genuine and it is also survivable. Keep the alertness and drop the fear, because fear is what makes people move too early."
      },
      {
        "position": 3,
        "text": "The resolve shows plainly in the face, which is bad; walking on alone the querent is caught in the rain, is spattered, and is resented for it, and in the end there is no blame.",
        "meaning": "The strong line at the exposed threshold is the only one with a direct tie to the corruption above, and it cannot cut that tie cleanly. The querent will be accused of contamination by their own side. Endure the suspicion, since that very connection is what makes the break-through possible and the record clears afterward."
      },
      {
        "position": 4,
        "text": "The skin is gone from the thighs and walking is painful; being led quietly like a sheep would end the trouble, but the querent hears this and will not believe it.",
        "meaning": "A strong line in a yielding place, close to power and unable to sit still. The restlessness is doing the damage, and the cure is to follow rather than to lead. The line says outright that the advice will be refused, which is the real warning: notice that you are refusing it."
      },
      {
        "position": 5,
        "text": "The deep-rooted weed has to be pulled out with complete resolve, and the middle way is kept while doing it.",
        "meaning": "The ruling line is strong and sits directly beneath the single corrupt line at the top. The thing to be removed is close, entrenched, and probably familiar. Take it out entirely and without cruelty, and keep the manner of the removal as clean as the reason for it."
      },
      {
        "position": 6,
        "text": "There is no one left to call to, and the end is bad.",
        "meaning": "This is the one yielding line, past the peak, isolated above five strong ones. It is the corruption itself at the moment it discovers it has no allies. For the querent it is a warning about any part of the situation that is being sustained by nothing except position."
      }
    ]
  }
}