萃 → 解
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 40: Deliverance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 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 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
伯夷叔齊，貞廉之師。以德防患，憂禍不存，聲芳後時。
Bo Yi and Shu Qi, masters of purity and integrity. By virtue they guard against calamity; worry and misfortune do not endure, and their renown perfumes later ages.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to thunder above water, the liberating release of Deliverance. Boyi and Shuqi, paragons of integrity and purity, serve as moral teachers for all. Through virtue they guarded against calamity, and worry and misfortune ceased to exist; their fragrant reputation endures for ages to come. The two brothers of Guzhu refused to eat the grain of Zhou, choosing death on Mount Shouyang over compromise. Their famine was voluntary, their principle absolute. From Gathering to Deliverance, the transformation reveals an unexpected liberation: by refusing to gather with the new regime, Boyi and Shuqi freed themselves from moral contamination. Thunder and rain clear the air, and what remains after the storm is not wealth or power but an untarnishable name.
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