Hexagram 10: Treading → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

Treading
Heaven / Lake
Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramHeaven LakeThe Creative → The Joyous
Lower TrigramLake EarthThe Joyous → The Receptive

Yilin Verse

延頸望酒,不入我口;深以自喜,利得無有。

Craning the neck, gazing at wine; it does not enter my mouth. Deeply pleased with oneself; yet no profit is to be had.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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