萃 → 恆
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 5).
Line 2
六二 引吉无咎。孚乃利用禴。
Six in the second place means: Letting oneself be drawn Brings good fortune and remains blameless. If one is sincere, It furthers one to bring even a small offering.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
阿衡服箱，太一載行。巡時歷舍，所之吉昌。
Yi Yin yokes the chariot; Taiyi rides forth. Touring the seasons, passing through the lodges; wherever he goes, auspicious and prosperous.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to thunder above wind, the steadfast Duration of Heng. Aheng takes up the yoke of the carriage; Taiyi sets forth on his journey. Traveling through the seasons and lodging at each station, wherever he goes is auspicious and prosperous. Aheng is the title of Yi Yin, the sage minister who helped King Tang found the Shang dynasty. Taiyi (Grand Unity) is the supreme celestial deity in Han cosmology, whose ritual chariot circuits the heavens marking the seasons. The pairing of a mortal sage-minister with a cosmic deity suggests governance aligned with heaven's own rhythm. From Gathering to Duration, the assembled community finds enduring order when human administration follows celestial pattern: thunder and wind perpetually reinforce each other.
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