Transformation · lines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6
Gathering with Equals becomes Water
What this change means
Five lines move, and the open fellowship becomes water upon water, one hollow after another. In 29 Water, the one still line is the focus: you'll get past these obstacles if you follow the path of least resistance and head step by step toward your goal. That's the whole lesson here. Difficulties may come in sequence, and the community you relied on may feel scattered by them. Don't stop, and don't fight the terrain. Find where the way gives, move through there, and keep going. Fear can be the real trap, leaving you stuck in the pit. A stream doesn't argue with the rocks; it goes around and keeps flowing. Steady, flexible movement toward what you want can carry you and others through.
What to read, in order
Marked ● is what Zhu Xi's tradition puts at the center for this number of moving lines.
- Line 5 of 29 Water, which stays still
You'll get out of the obstacles now if you follow the path of least resistance and, step by step, head toward your goal.
The pit does not overflow; it fills just to the level. No fault.
- 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 6 of 13 Gathering with Equals
You're in a favorable position from which you can reach agreements with all kinds of people.
Community on the outskirts. No regret.
- The judgment of 29 Water
Just as a stream moves through obstacles and gets past them, following its course without stagnating, you're at a time when obstacles will come one after another, but you'll get past them if you can keep moving. Letting fear paralyze you will only leave you stuck.
There is sincere trust. Only the heart gets through. Going earns esteem.
The trigrams
The way back
29 Water → 13 Gathering with Equalslines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6
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.