萃 → 蒙
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
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 4
九四 大吉无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: Great good fortune. No blame.
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
置筐失筥，輪破无輔。家伯為政，病我下土。
Setting down the basket, losing the hamper; the wheel breaks, bereft of its hub. Jia Bo governs the state; he sickens our lowly soil.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to water beneath the mountain, where youthful folly obscures sound judgment. Baskets are placed but storage bins lost; the wheel breaks and its support is gone. Jia Bo governs the state, sickening the land below. Jia Bo appears in the Shijing's 'Shi Yue Zhi Jiao' ode as one of the corrupt officials under King You of Zhou, listed alongside Huang Fu and others whose maladministration brought the Western Zhou to ruin. When those who gather power are incompetent, every practical apparatus fails: containers lose their contents, vehicles lose their wheels. From Gathering to Youthful Folly, the assembly of the wrong people around power leads to governance as blind as a spring emerging beneath a mountain, groping in darkness.
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