Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Gathering with Equals becomes Immaturity
What this change means
Every line but the top one moves, and the confident fellowship becomes a spring breaking out at the foot of a mountain. In 4 Immaturity, the one still line is the focus: what helps now is owning the results of what you did and putting right whatever needs it. That's a sobering turn after so much movement. Something in your shared projects didn't go as you expected, and some of it may be yours to answer for. Don't defend it or explain it away. Acknowledge what happened, take your share, and fix what you can. This hexagram also reminds you that you may not yet have the experience the situation demands. Asking for guidance from someone who knows more, and applying it, is a strength. Owning a mistake openly often rebuilds trust faster than any success could.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 6 of 4 Immaturity, which stays still
Accepting the consequences of your actions and correcting what's needed will help you right now.
Striking the ignorant. Being a raider is not favorable; stopping the raider is favorable.
- The judgment of 13 Gathering with Equals
It's a time of meetings with people of a high nature like yours, with whom you can carry out important tasks and projects. Relationships built on trust and mutual support take shape. Large, innovative projects are favored.
Community in the open country. Success. It is favorable to cross the great river. The constancy of the noble person is favorable.
- Line 1 of 13 Gathering with Equals
Shared projects should be carried out in the open, with nothing hidden.
Community at the gate. No fault.
- Line 2 of 13 Gathering with Equals
If you join with people who try to exclude others, the projects won't move forward.
Community within the clan. Distress.
- Line 3 of 13 Gathering with Equals
If you let distrust grow in your relationships and let the people in them hide things from each other, your actions will fail.
Hiding soldiers in the brush, climbing the high hill. For three years, no rising.
- Line 4 of 13 Gathering with Equals
Despite the differences, if you reach agreements, trust will come back little by little.
Climbing up on the wall, yet unable to attack. Good fortune.
- Line 5 of 13 Gathering with Equals
The big differences seem impossible to bridge; still, with patience and a willing heart, union returns.
Community: first wailing and cries, then laughter. The great armies manage to meet.
- The judgment of 4 Immaturity
Be aware that you don't yet have the maturity you need to reach what you're after in the area of your question. Act with humility: ask for guidance, seek advice and counsel, and put what you're told into practice.
Success. I do not go looking for the ignorant youth; the ignorant youth comes looking for me. The first time the oracle is asked, I answer. A second and a third asking is an offense, and an offense gets no answer. Constancy is favorable.
The trigrams
The way back
4 Immaturity → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Other transformations of Gathering with Equals
Make your own cast
The answer changes with the question. Toss the coins and see which lines move for you.