Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 17: Following

Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Following
Lake / Thunder
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 1).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake Lake
Lower TrigramEarth ThunderThe Receptive → The Arousing

Yilin Verse

貧鬼守門,日破我盆。毀甖傷釭,空虛无子。

The ghost of poverty guards the gate, daily breaking my basin. Smashing the jar, cracking the lamp; empty and hollow, without issue.

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

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