萃 → 艮
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
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 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
三世為德，天祚以國。封建少昊，魯侯之福。
Three generations built virtue; heaven blessed them with a kingdom. Enfeoffing and establishing Shaohao; such is the fortune of the Marquis of Lu.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to doubled mountain, the profound stillness of Keeping Still. Three generations accumulate virtue, and heaven bestows a state upon them. They are granted the domain of Shao Hao, and the Marquis of Lu receives his blessing. Shao Hao, the ancient sage-king associated with the eastern regions, had his seat at Qufu, the same site where the state of Lu was later established. The Duke of Zhou was enfeoffed at Lu, and his descendants governed it for centuries. Three generations of accumulated virtue, from King Wen through King Wu to the Duke of Zhou, earned the heavenly mandate. From Gathering to Keeping Still, the transformation reveals how sustained moral accumulation, generation after generation, solidifies into an immovable foundation.
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