萃 → 晉
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 35: Progress
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
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
安坐玉堂，聽樂行觴。飲福萬歲，日受無疆。
Sitting at ease in the jade hall, listening to music, passing the cup. Drinking to blessings for ten thousand years; daily receiving boundless fortune.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to fire emerging above the earth, the bright Progress of Jin. Seated peacefully in a jade hall, one listens to music and raises the goblet. Drinking in blessings for ten thousand years, receiving bounty without end each day. The jade hall is the mark of highest court privilege, where only those closest to the sovereign feast. Music accompanies wine in the ancient ritual banquet, and the phrase 'drink blessings' (yin fu) refers specifically to the ritual portion of sacrificial meat and wine shared after a state ceremony. From Gathering to Progress, the assembly becomes celebration: what was merely proximate now advances into radiant prosperity. Fire rising from the earth illuminates the feast, and the gathered community shares in the sovereign's grace.
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