萃 → 離
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 有孚不終。乃亂乃萃。若號一握為笑。勿恤。往无咎。
Six at the beginning means: If you are sincere, but not to the end, There will sometimes be confusion, sometimes gathering together. If you call out, Then after one grasp of the hand you can laugh again. Regret not. Going is without blame.
Line 3
六三 萃如嗟如。无攸利。往无咎。小吝。
Six in the third place means: Gathering together amid sighs. Nothing that would further. Going is without blame. Slight humiliation.
Line 5
九五 萃有位。无咎匪孚。元永貞。悔亡。
Nine in the fifth place means: If in gathering together one has position, This brings no blame. If there are some who are not yet sincerely in the work, Sublime and enduring perseverance is needed. Then remorse disappears.
Line 6
上六 齎咨涕洟。无咎。
Six at the top means: Lamenting and sighing, floods of tears. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
泰山幽谷，鳳凰游宿。威儀有序，可以來福。
In the hidden valley of Mount Tai, the phoenix roams and roosts. Bearing dignity and proper order, it may summon blessings.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to doubled fire, the radiant Clinging. Mount Tai's secluded valley shelters the phoenix at rest. Dignity and ceremony are properly ordered, and through them blessings arrive. Mount Tai, the eastern sacred peak, is the site of the feng and shan imperial sacrifices. The phoenix roosting in its hidden valley suggests supreme virtue dwelling in the most sacred landscape, present but not yet displayed. When protocol aligns with inner worth, the result is magnetic: blessing comes naturally. From Gathering to the Clinging, the transformation is one of illumination. What the lake gathered in darkness upon the earth now blazes forth as doubled fire. The phoenix emerges from its valley to shine, and proper ceremony becomes the vehicle for that radiance.
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