解 → 萃
Hexagram 40: Deliverance → Hexagram 45: Gathering Together
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Line 2
九二 田獲三狐。得黃矢。貞吉。
Nine in the second place means: One kills three foxes in the field And receives a yellow arrow. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Line 5
六五 君子維有解。吉。有孚于小人。
Six in the fifth place means: If only the superior man can deliver himself, It brings good fortune. Thus he proves to inferior men that he is in earnest.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
竊名盜位，居非其家。霜隕不實，為陰所賊。
Stealing a name, usurping a seat; dwelling in a house not his own. Frost falls, the fruit does not ripen; yin wickedness devours him.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder over water gathers into the lake upon the earth — but the gathering of Gathering Together here is fraudulent. One steals a reputation and usurps a position, dwelling in a house that is not one's own. Frost falls and the fruit does not ripen; yin forces have sabotaged everything. The verse describes an impostor: someone occupying a role through deceit rather than merit, and the natural consequence of that illegitimacy — nothing comes to fruition under a false steward. From Deliverance to Gathering, the release from crisis creates a power vacuum that the unworthy rush to fill. Frost kills the fruit that a true occupant would have nurtured to harvest.
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