坤 → 萃
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 4, 5).
Line 4
六四 括囊。无咎无譽。
Six in the fourth place means: A tied-up sack. No blame, no praise.
Line 5
六五 黃裳。元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: A yellow lower garment brings supreme good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
褰衣涉河，澗流浚多。賴遇舟子，濟脫無他。
Lifting robes to cross the river; the mountain stream flows swift and deep. Fortunately encountering a boatman; one is delivered and escapes without harm.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth upon earth yields to lake above earth — Gathering. Lifting one's garments to wade across the river, the rushing current is deep and swift. Fortunately one encounters a boatman, and crosses safely without mishap. Lake upon earth, the image of Cui, is the gathering of waters in a low place — people congregating where resources pool. The verse depicts the individual who cannot cross alone but is saved by the timely appearance of help. The boatman is the agent of Gathering: the person who enables passage by being in the right place. From the Receptive to Gathering, the earth's terrain creates both the obstacle and the meeting point. The deep ford is where the boatman waits, and where travelers naturally converge — danger itself produces the gathering that provides rescue.
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