萃 → 巽
Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 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 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 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
眾口銷金，愆言不驗。腐臭敗兔，入市不售。
Many mouths melt gold; false words prove untrue. A rotting, stinking hare brought to market finds no buyer.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake upon earth gives way to doubled wind, the penetrating Gentle. Mass opinion melts gold: the proverb warns that collective slander can destroy anything, even metal. Careless words fail to prove true, and a rotting, stinking rabbit brought to market finds no buyer. The 'zhong kou xiao jin' maxim appears in the Guoyu and Shiji, warning that when many mouths speak the same accusation, even the innocent are consumed. The rotten rabbit extends the metaphor: a ruined product of collective effort that nobody wants. From Gathering to the Gentle, the transformation reveals the dark side of communal pressure. Wind upon wind penetrates everywhere, and gathered opinion, once it turns hostile, insinuates itself into every crevice until reputation and value are utterly dissolved.
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