Hexagram 45: Gathering Together → Hexagram 6: Conflict

Gathering Together
Lake / Earth
Conflict
Heaven / Water
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramLake HeavenThe Joyous → The Creative
Lower TrigramEarth WaterThe Receptive → The Deep

Yilin Verse

亡錐失斧,公輸无輔。抱其彝器,適君子處。

Losing the awl and axe; Gongshu is without aid. Clutching his ritual vessels, he goes to where the noble man dwells.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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